Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig. My name is Craig. My name

is Craig Mason. Oh! And this is episode 612 of Script Notes. A podcast about screenwriting

and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, if the hero of your story

is a fish out of water, it really matters what that water is. We'll look at the importance

of starting context for your character's journey and definitively break down all films

into just two categories. We'll also look at mod tomatoes, gibberish, fantasy movies,

and in our bonus segment for premium members, Craig, you called an audible. We have a new

suggestion from you. Yes. Today in our bonus segment, we're going to be talking about

diabetes, both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Fantastic. Lots to discuss. Worth the five bucks

I should say. Yes, because you'll get news and insight. It could be life saving.

It could be life saving. Generally, it could be. But only for the people who can pay

$5. Correct. Everyone else dies. We have some follow-up speaking of things that are

no longer on this earth. True. Help us out. Ghosted by the studio's rights, while I am

so happy for Craig and those Disney plus show creators to be able to have a physical

copy of their work, I'm sad not to be in their company. A film that I wrote in deeply

love, and for which I earned my first writer's Guild Award nomination for, was unceremoniously

disappeared from a streaming site a few months ago with no warning, leaving me with no

record of the movie I wrote. I was gutted. I still am.

Since then, I've been trying to get a DVD copy or even a digital link so I can have the

movie in my library to show my kids when they're old enough. But unfortunately, my contract

was for a feature film, as the film was originally slated to go to theaters before COVID

sent it to a streaming instead. And because of that, I was only entitled to a DVD if a

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