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Film Courage: The struggle to wrangle a story. What does that mean to you?
Tony DuShane, Writer/Podcaster/Teacher: The wrangling…I think of the term I’ve used a lot which is taming the beast because it’s such an almost ethereal thing to take an idea and then to make it a narrative.
Then if it comes out as a book or a film to have so many people involved and they’re trying to bring this small idea that you had one day that was like “I’ll try that.”
Then after a lot of work it’s a thing.
It’s just so strange to have a thing and remember the day and the moment that that idea came to the head.
Then what it became which is so different usually than what the original idea was but yet close.
Film Courage: So, is it almost like let’s say a snake wrangler that’s holding these venomous snakes and putting it over here very carefully or no, it’s it’s just more it’s this kernel of something?
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Tony: Or maybe it’s like taking a piece of string and trying to make it straight and it just never goes straight.
The wrangling idea. Because you’re also wrangling characters.
You’re wrangling characters.
You’re wrangling world building.
You’re wrangling tone.
There’s a lot to put into the overall narrative project and at the same time it needs to be done on every single level and every single scene.
It’s not easy to get sometimes, it’s not even easy to get the theme.
Some people get their theme right away and I’m like “I don’t know how you got your theme right away?…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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BIO:
Tony DuShane is the author of the semi-autobiographical novel Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. He adapted the screenplay for director Eric Stoltz, and the film is now available on Amazon Prime. His journalism and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Penthouse, The Believer, and other media outlets. DuShane has hosted the author interview show Drinks with Tony since 2002.
He teaches novel and screenwriting at UCLA Extension.
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