“Unraveling the Complex Ties: Is ‘Motherboy’ the Most Enigmatic Screenplay of the Year?”
So, where did Motherboy land on that game board? The obvious version or the unique version?
A bit of both. The first half of the script was very by-the-numbers. Anybody could’ve written it. For example, there’s a scene where Tatum wakes up in the middle of the night, her husband gone. She hears giggling down the hallway. She creeps down it, she peeks inside the bathroom doorway where Tatum and Owen are naked kissing in the bathtub.
AND THEN OF COURSE it’s a nightmare.
I must read scenes like that a thousand times a year. They’re so cliche. They’re so obvious. That’s what I mean when I say, 75 out of 100 writers are going to write the same version of the story. That kind of writer will write that scene. Why? Cause it’s obvious. And it takes no work to come up with.
