Collateral — The Midpoint Collision
Lessons from the Screenplay
Apr 27, 2018 14:00
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Michael Mann’s 2004 thriller Collateral is a great example of how a protagonist’s facade is slowly stripped away as their inner self is forced to rise, and what happens when these two sides of the character collide at the midpoint of the story.
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