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The Angeles Crest Fiasco

Episode - 142

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May 6, 2014 Scriptnotes, Story and Plot

Screenwriter Kelly Marcel joins John and Craig to play Fiasco, resulting in a tale of art, murder and sexual blackmail in the Hollywood Hills.

This extended, unlike-all-before-it episode will probably be polarizing, but it was a chance to explore story in ways that you can’t do in abstract. In Fiasco, plot really does come out of character choices.

This episode is filthy. If this were a cable drama, it would be TV-MA DSLV. If that makes you more or less likely to listen, trust your gut. (There’s no nudity. It’s radio.)

Our thanks to Kelly Marcel for hosting. Next week, we’ll return with a more conventional episode.

Links:

  • Kelly Marcel on IMDb, and on Scriptnotes episodes 115, 123 and 124, and the recent WGF Bonus Episode
  • Fiasco and on Amazon
  • Hollywood Wives by Jobe Bittman and other Fiasco Playsets
  • Rawson Thurber on IMDb
  • Richard Kelly on IMDb
  • Colin Jost, and on IMDb
  • John’s teaser tweet with images of the cards
  • Fiasco on TableTop with Wil Wheaton: Set-up, Part 1, and Part 2
  • Angeles Crest National Forest
  • Zoom H4N recorder on Amazon
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Betty Spinks (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

Because of the length of this episode and the cost involved, there will not be a transcript of episode 142.

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