It gets tricky. You’re right: you don’t need to spoon feed me. However, sometimes beats are dropped somewhere along the line in between something inferred (yet unspoken) and something not on the page, unclear or opaque. I’m not recommending anyone write on the nose. We don’t want any characters to storm around screaming, “I’m angry!” But make sure your beats move cleanly from A to B to C. They need to add up logically. The script should ideally be greater than the sum of its parts, but that transcendence comes more from tone, theme and character arc – the emotional journey the protagonist undertakes – than from the writer being unclear with his beats.
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