Oppenheimer (2023)

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DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

How and why should every scene have an emotional event?

AI✦Uses the Oppenheimer-Groves meeting to examine how subtext and status negotiation create emotional stakes: both men test each other’s appetite for friction, discovering compatibility through resistance rather than alignment, with the relationship fundamentally altered by scene’s end despite surface agreement.✦

⏱ 1h 37m

Character · Scenes · Structure | 31 MAR 2024

Listen to understand why a scene's power lives in what shifts between characters, not what happens to them.

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Films: Oppenheimer (2023) , Casino Royale (2006) , Past Lives (2023)

Character: Subtext , Relationships , Tactics , Character Motivation , Writing for Actors

Scenes: Status , Scene Structure , Dramatic Irony

Structure: Emotional Event

"I think they're both testing each other. I think, you know, Oppenheimer wants the job, but he knows that Groves wants somebody who will test him. They want the friction. They like the friction. They both work best with friction."

— judith | DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

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DZ-109

Talking DIRECTLY to your audience

⏱ 1h 20m

MAY 2024