After seeing Wanted, which was an entertaining film without being strictly "good", I mused that it was the first action movie that I had ever seen. I'd seen lots of action-adventure films, some action comedies, action dramas, and so on, but Wanted was the first that I'd seen that utterly threw away everything other than really cool action and a minimum of necessary justification for it.
I think I might want to channel some of that into my script. I want to acknowledge, at least a little, that the action scenes are part of the reason that the movie exists, and are as key as even something like the main character's arc.
~Thomas Doggette
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