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Years ago I was in therapy, whining through misdirected diatribes of what happened yesterday, the day before, or last week. This went on for months – me coming in with a new story, a new conflict, a new situation – but I was getting nowhere. Finally, my therapist roared: "I can't help you if you won't listen!" He must have known I was ready, because this time I actually heard his wisdom. And what he went on to explain was The Tree Analogy. If the tree represents the totality of a person's life experience, we often tend to only see the leaves, which are the immediate…
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Screenplay Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance Movie Time: 103 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Ben (Jimmy Fallon) meets Lindsay (Drew Barrymore), asks her out, and she accepts despite her concerns that he’s “just a schoolteacher.” (00:10:03)
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