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Just as you carefully name your characters, places, and
just about everything else in your screenplay, you should also carefully select the numbers you
use. Street addresses, ages, phone numbers, etc., is every bit as important as careful naming.
A super-efficient way to enhance meaning in your movie.
A license number, a clock face, the page of a calendar. All of these are highly efficient and
economical ways of relaying meaning to the viewers of your movie. While impressing Hollywood
readers that you really know what you're doing (not to mentioning helping to speed their job of
finding "The Next Big Thing", you!). Why waste a single drop of ink that can be used to establish
mood, enhance anticipation, accent theme, emphasize irony, etc?
Consider the numbers carefully when you watch movies, too.
When you watch movies, consider the phone numbers, street addresses, and everything else that
contains a number. Do you think these were chosen at random? What meaning are they trying to
relay?
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