Once in a while, a movie comes along, and it completely tears down the genre expectations that came with it. In the early 90s, that movie was _Dances With Wolves_ , and it took on the Western.

The film was a passion project from writer, director, and star Kevin Costner and went on to sweep the Academy Awards.

But Costner didn’t wait until the third act to show audiences he was subverting…

If you've ever sat through a script note session and thought, "I wish someone would just say what they mean," Scriptfella is your guy.

In this excerpt from one of his free live classes, screenwriting coach Dominic Morgan workshopped _How's the Pain_ , a script by writer Garrick Hamm about a terminally ill hit woman who forms an unlikely connection on what turns out to be her final job.

The…