Unraveling the Shadows: How Blackout’s Screenplay Keeps You Guessing Until the Final Frame
And from there, you just make things as hard on him as possible so he has to overcome a lot of obstacles. I talked about the importance of saying “NO” to your character and how that creates better scenes.
There’s this really fun scene in Commando around the middle of the movie. Matrix and Cindy figure out the island Matrix’s daughter is being held on and come up with a plan to get there. But Matrix says, “First we need to go shopping.” And he goes to this giant closed gun store, breaks in, and starts loading up on all these insane weapons. It’s a fun montage. We’re into it because we can already imagine Matrix going crazy with these weapons.
