Hello and welcome my name is John August and this episode 630 of script notes a

podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters today on

the show we welcome Selene song a playwright screenwriter and director whose movie Past Lives is

Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

We will talk about that movie, but also getting staffed on this TV show, Ra financing, making a first feature in two

different countries, but before that, staffing on a TV show deciding between

film school versus playwriting school will answer some listener questions

since it's a great conversation. And in a bonus

conversation for premium members, Salin and I discuss Zoom and other online

performances including her staging of the seagull in Sims 4. But first, Drew, we

have some follow-up. We have the best listeners in the world and they

came through this week. Yeah, so we had a lot of people write in about examples of the

Tiffany problem, which we talked about last week. The Tiffany problem, that where like Tiffany is actually an old name so people

used to be called Tiffany but if you use that name now people think like that seems weird like a

period film should not have a character named Tiffany. And there's quite a few examples so

Courtney wrote in and wrote as as a bird watcher, one Tiffany problem I know of is the call of a bald eagle.

Most Americans associate a bald eagle's call with soaring, almost echoing screech. Not pretty per se, but definitely powerful and approaching majestic.

Here's an example.

But that's actually the sound of a red-tailed hawk.

An accurate bald eagle sound is almost painfully high-pitched and typically kind of chippy like a yapping dog.

Wow, that is really, really different. And we'll put a link into the YouTube videos of this too because when you see the bald eagle doing its thing it's like that's not a graceful way of making a sound.

No, I don't know.

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