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Write Your Screenplay Podcast
by Jacob Krueger Studio
Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can apply those lessons to your own writing. More information and full archives at WriteYourScreenplay.com831588
Episodes
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Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire & Pattern Based Engine
Learn how Adolescence Episode 3 (building upon structural techniques from The Wire) uses a Pattern Based Series Engine to navigate rare changes in characters and narrative form while still preserving the feeling of the series.
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Adolescence Part 1: Playing at the Top Of Your Intelligence
Learn how Adolescence grabs its audience in the first ten seconds—and what screenwriters can take from its naturalistic style, one-shot structure, and emotionally grounded approach to character.
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The Last of Us S2 Resetting Your Series Engine
Learn how The Last of Us Season 2 resets its story engine—and what it teaches about rebuilding character dynamics, stakes, and tension in your own TV series.
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The White Lotus: Why Season 3 Feels Different
Learn how Engine and Theme function in all 3 seasons of The White Lotus and how slight changes in The White Lotus Season 3 massively affect the feeling of the series...
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The Brutalist Part 2: Do You Need an Active Main Character?
Discover why Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, rejects the idea that protagonists must drive the action and how its unconventional approach grows out of its thematic exploration of the immigrant experience.
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The Brutalist Part 1: How to Deal with Experts & Research
Learn how to balance expert research and creative freedom in your screenwriting as we explore Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody.
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The Apprentice: Writing The Antihero
Learn from The Apprentice the art of writing complex antagonists by connecting to the universal emotional needs that drive character choices
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Lessons From Sundance 2025, Part 2
Learn from Sundance 2025 genre stand-outs Together and Didn’t Die how to explore deeply human characters and questions within an elevated horror or zombie format.
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Lessons From Sundance 2025 Part 1
Lessons From Sundance 2025 Part 1 by Jacob Krueger Studio
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A Real Pain: Building Characters With Vignettes
Learn from “A Real Pain” how to apply the concepts of vignettes to building character, structure and theme in your screenplay.
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A Complete Unknown: Writing The Biopic
Learn what makes A Complete Unknown work as a biopic, and how to approach the complex relationship between truth and dramatization in the adaptation of any true life story.
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How to Prepare a 3 Minute “Elevator Pitch”
Need help getting your 3 minute pitch ready for our free online pitching event on Jan 9 with Vanessa Johnston? Wondering how to build a short “elevator pitch” that communicates the essence of your project? Or just curious about pitching in general? Then check out this podcast recording of Jake’s...
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Do You Need More DISCIPLINE to achieve your New Year’s Resolutions?
Learn practical techniques for transforming your writing blocks into bridges by understanding the psychology of creative resistance and how to work with it rather than against it. Ready to kickstart your 2025 with access to one of the top producers in Hollywood? Get a chance to pitch your script…
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Ensemble Pieces
In this interview with Erin Brown Thomas, you’ll learn how to write an effective ensemble film through deep analysis of Erin’s Sundance film, Chasers and PT Anderson’s Magnolia.
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The Penguin: What's The Container for Your Show or Movie?
Learn from The Penguin how to master the art of packaging complex, character-driven stories within commercial frameworks that can sell in today's Hollywood marketplace.
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How To Get The Most From Film Festivals
Learn how to strategically choose and attend film festivals, build meaningful industry relationships, and advance your screenwriting career through authentic networking and mentorship opportunities.
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The Starless Sea: Harnessing The Power of Metaphor
Learn from Erin Morganstern’s brilliant novel The Starless Sea how to harness your subconscious mind to create writing that resonates on both literal and metaphorical levels.
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Between the Temples - Alternative Forms of Structure
Learn from Between The Temples how to create compelling structure in your screenplay, even when working with passive main characters or unconventional narratives.
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Strange Darling Primary and Secondary Structure
Learn from Strange Darling the difference between primary and secondary structure in screenwriting, and how to harness both to provide maximum impact for your audience.
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The Bear Season 3 and Furiosa: The Past is Prologue
This unlikely pairing of The Bear, Season 3 and Mad Max, Furiosa will teach you how to build an engine for a TV Series or Film Franchise, and how to avoid BREAKING that engine in later installments.
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Deadpool vs Wolverine: Action Movie Structure and Set Pieces
Learn the structure and engine of Deadpool & Wolverine and how to craft compelling set pieces with both visual and emotional stakes in your action writing.
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The Boys, Season 4: The Series Engine
Learn from The Boys how to develop a consistent yet evolving story engine across multiple seasons of a TV series, using theme as a guiding principle for character development and plot progression.
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Long Legs vs Hereditary: Character Wants
Learn the secrets of elevated psychological horror writing in this breakdown of the structure of two related scripts: Longlegs and Hereditary.
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Is It Time To Quit?
Learn life-changing techniques to silence the inner questions and doubts in your head, and know if it’s time to quit or time to redouble your efforts in pursuing your passion as a screenwriter. If you enjoyed our podcast, don't miss out on Thursday Night Writes – our lively writing exercises…
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The Fall Guy Part 2: Write For Hollywood Without Selling Out
Through a beat-by-beat analysis of the split-screen scene of The Fall Guy, discover how to find your voice within the container of a big Hollywood action movie. If you enjoyed our podcast, don't miss out on Thursday Night Writes – our lively writing exercises Happy Hour hosted by Jacob Krueger...
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Monkey Man: Expressionism in Action Movies
Learn how Dev Patel uses expressionism within the action movie format of Monkey Man to explore class in India. Edit Snippet
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Civil War vs Apocalypse Now: The War Movie
“Civil War, like Apocalypse Now, doesn’t have the traditional Hollywood narrative structure. It’s built more like a zombie road trip into the heart of darkness….”
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Steve Molton: Internal Antagonists and the 7 Forms of Conflict
Learn the 7 forms of conflicts and how connecting to your character’s internal antagonist can provide a bedrock to your structure and the key to your personal wisdom.
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Poor Things: Theme and Meaning
Discover how Yórgos Lánthimos' Poor Things uses a simple theme to navigate profound questions about identity, the past, and the search for one's authentic voice.
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Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part II
Learn screenwriting tips from Sundance films Nocturnes, Every Little Thing, Black Box Diaries, Eno, Thelma, Kidnapping, Inc, and lectures from Jonathan Nolan and Steven Soderbergh.
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Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part 1
Jacob Krueger and Christian Lybrook discuss some of the most exciting independent movies premiering at Sundance and what screenwriters can learn from them.
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Past Lives: Genre and Premise
Learn how Past Lives both honors and subverts the genre elements implied by its premise, and how to apply those concepts to your own writing in any genre.
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Dream Scenario: Passive Main Characters
How can the new Nicholas Cage movie be a hit with the critics but leave audiences cold? Three words: Passive Main Character.
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5 Steps To Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
Learn 5 simple steps to set New Year’s Resolutions for your writing that actually stick!
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4th Annual Pitch Festivus!
Learn pitching from Jacob Krueger and top JKS faculty members. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/t... Learn more about our programs:...
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10 Tips For a Winning “Elevator” Pitch
Learn the secrets of a winning pitch for contests and festivals, and prepare your pitch for our upcoming Pitch Festivus! event.
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Saltburn: A Master Class in Tone
Learn how Emerald Fennell mashes up genre and controls tone in Saltburn.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapting a True Life
Learn how to find your “take” and balance fiction and truth when adapting a true story or book from this script analysis of Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Writer's Block and the Inner Censor
The Inner Censor helps build writer's blocK –here’s how to turn it off
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Two Kinds of Writer’s Block
Learn about the two forms of writer’s block and how to combat them in your writing career.
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Talk to Me, Part 2: World Building & Structure
Learn mirrors and foils, an intuitive approach to world building, structure, character and theme in Jake’s script analysis of Talk to Me.
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Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
Learn the vital importance of your screenplay’s first 10 pages, and what it takes to make them successful on both a commercial and creative level.
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Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
Learn the vital importance of your screenplay’s first 10 pages, and what it takes to make them successful on both a commercial and creative level.
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The Bear, Season 2: Overcoming Self Doubt As a Screenwriter
Learn to escape the “refrigerator” of doubt and negativity that gets in the way of your screenwriting through Jake’s analysis of The Bear, Season 2. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET…
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Barbenheimer: The Art of Adaptation
Learn from Barbie and Oppenheimer the vital role of theme in writing a screenplay adaptation.
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3: How to Write Flashbacks and Exposition
Learn how to write flashbacks that work and how to handle exposition in your screenplay from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3
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Shrinking Part 2: Five Tips For Writing Better Dialogue and Exploding Cliché
Jake compares the famous “adventure book” scene from Pixar’s Up! and the photo-album scene from Shrinking to show you how to turn a familiar scene into something fresh and new.
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Shrinking Part 1: Is Writing Like Therapy?
Learn from Shrinking about therapeutic and anti-therapeutic writing structures, the challenges of writing therapy scenes, and the links between writing and therapy. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at...
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A Man Called Otto: Character Building
Learn an intuitive approach to character building through A Man Called Otto, and how to write characters more truthfully by connecting to your own emotional needs.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once PART 2: The Opening Sequence
Jake does a deep, line by line analysis of the opening sequence of Everything Everywhere All at Once to help you understand how to write a great opening sequence for your own movie.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can apply those lessons to your own writing. More information and full archives at WriteYourScreenplay.com831588
HOSTED BY
Jacob Krueger Studio
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Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can...
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