Tag: Andrew Dominik

Favorite Screenwriting Device No. 42 – The Sympathetic Listener

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Zooey Deschanel (above) and Casey Affleck (below) in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Much has been written about the scene in There Will Be Blood in which Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) confesses his innermost feelings to his purported half-brother, Henry Brands (Kevin J. O’Connor). “I have a competition in me,” [...]