The Screen Is Great for Big Things, But in Screenplays, Little Things Mean A Lot

Take Terminator, for instance

Richard Walter
Moving Pictures
Published in
5 min readFeb 11

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No medium is better than movies for depicting big things.

An ocean liner crashing into an iceberg, as just one example, can be portrayed onscreen more effectively than any other medium.

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Richard Walter
Moving Pictures

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