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Kenneth Lonergan Talks Opening Sequence Of ‘Manchester By The Sea’, Why Writers Must Protect Their Individuality & What’s Next — Storyhouse
The 'You Can Count On Me' & 'Margaret' writer-director attended Dublin's Storyhouse festival, where he advised writers to protect their individuality.
The Manchester by the Sea and You Can Count on Me filmmaker imparted his advice about how to carve a screenwriting career in the film business during a lengthy keynote conversation with Room and Frank director Lenny Abrahamson. It just wasn’t the fashion to underline all the themes and have everything mean something and to tell the moral of the story in the first ten minutes and make sure the audience knew whose side of the spectrum you fell on, politically and socially.” The writer-director spoke at length about his different processes in filmmaking across his three films You Can Count on Me, Margaret and Manchester by the Sea and when probed by Abrahamson about the opening of the latter film, where Casey Affleck’s character is on a boat with his nephew (whom he eventually becomes the legal guardian of later in the movie), Lonergan admitted that sequence was not in the script and when they shot it, instinctively he felt it would make for a good opening sequence.
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