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Simon Lund Larsen

Simon Lund Larsen

How I Scaled a Niche Kids-Focused Podcast to a Mass Audience

The Unlikely Odyssey of a Kids’ Podcast to Top Charts

7 min readDec 18, 2023

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How I Scaled a Niche Kids-Focused Podcast to a Mass Audience

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Simon Lund Larsen

“The Cloverfield Paradox”: How one bad line in a screenplay can destroy an entire movie

The premise of the “The Cloverfield Paradox” seemed like the perfect setup of a fun action packed sci-fi movie, but I ended up only…

2 min readMar 24, 2018

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“The Cloverfield Paradox”: How one bad line in a screenplay can destroy an entire movie

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The Writing Cooperative

How to Effectively Combat Writer’s Block and Fear of the Blank Page

Hemingway Was onto Something.

5 min readDec 13, 2017

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How to Effectively Combat Writer’s Block and Fear of the Blank Page

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Lethal Weapon — Creating believable characters in mainstream action movies

How screenwriter Shane Black and director Richard Donner created one of the most loved action movies of the 80s by adding a bit of humanity…

5 min readNov 13, 2017

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Lethal Weapon — Creating believable characters in mainstream action movies

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Mission.org

The productive benefits of doing less to achieve more

Do like Warren Buffett: stop trying to do everything all at once and focus on few key elements at a time

8 min readOct 24, 2017

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The productive benefits of doing less to achieve more

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Kickstart your creative writing — Use the proven structure of mainstream Hollywood screenwriters

How do you go about writing a screenplay for a feature length movie? Or any longer story for that matter?

10 min readSep 13, 2017

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“Crash to black” — We need to talk about the ending of ‘The Mist’ from 2007

Frank Darabont changed the ending of Stephen King’s novella. King loved it. Then, why did it rub so many people the wrong way? It might…

9 min readJun 21, 2017

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“Crash to black” — We need to talk about the ending of ‘The Mist’ from 2007

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CineNation

‘Hell or High Water’ — Always Two There Are

Looking into the dualistic structure of the narrative

8 min readMay 16, 2017

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‘Hell or High Water’ — Always Two There Are

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Simon Lund Larsen

Al Pacino: The Eyes Have It

A side note from the main article about Carlito’s Way and Brian De Palma’s work

2 min readApr 15, 2017

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Al Pacino: The Eyes Have It

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Simon Lund Larsen

“Carlito’s Way” — The One That Got Away

Looking into how one cleverly constructed long take perfectly illustrates Brian De Palma’s extraordinary craftsmanship and his mastery of…

9 min readApr 10, 2017

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Simon Lund Larsen

Simon Lund Larsen

Has a day job at a toy factory. Trying hard to figure out why some movies work really well. Byline at @OuttakeThe, @MovieTimeGuru and @CineNationShow

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