“Inside the Twisted Minds: How Johnny Wickham and Mike Capes Turned Chilling Fears into Hilarious Thrills in SYS 529”
Johnny Wickham
Yeah, we got a lot of feedback that made us realize that initially people were like, oh wow, this movie is going to suck. And then they were pleasantly surprised.
Mike Capes
There’s a stigma to a title like that because in no offense to those movies but you get in those the Sharknado kind of world where it’s kind of a follow the plot script. They’re trying to be maybe Dumb funny ish, I guess I don’t but we approached this way different It was a high concept, you know premise, but you know structurally I said Johnny. We’re going to write this as a real film like something Spielberg would have written in the 80s Like we’re going to hearken back to those films. We grew up on I believe that Movies need movies don’t have souls very much for me anymore And I feel like that’s gone because your people aren’t writing character connections that would get you to a dark night of the soul that would get you sort of the beats and Sort of subconscious things that happen to audiences when they’re like, whoa, I’m actually connected to these characters. Why and You know, so structure is Very big for me. I’m a stickler on structure as Johnny knows I’m like, you know, look I look like I really love I shared Blake Snyder with him. I go you look there are screenplay books that let you know Knock it down with like the first 15 you’re inciting incident this there There’s the sort of the mapping of the structure and Blake Snyder broke it down a little bit more relatable and he kind of gave it some fun titles and But it really sinks in that way because like oh that makes sense This is where that the movie should turn and this is where the characters should break apart Maybe and this is where there should be tension and this is you know, the here’s our thesis Here’s our into this and antithesis and here’s our synthesis I believe that the movie should have that ride and I think people are experiencing that every festival we’ve gone to man People are really loving it and you know giving us applause breaks It’s pretty wild to see that structure actually does work.
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