helicopter | davidhardiman.com https://davidhardiman.com A safe and legal literary drug. Now available in prescription strength. Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:21:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://davidhardiman.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Header-32x32.jpg helicopter | davidhardiman.com https://davidhardiman.com 32 32  “What in Tarnation is a Helicopter Doing Here?” https://davidhardiman.com/blog/what-in-tarnation-is-a-helicopter-doing-here-how-movies-signify-urgency/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:20:37 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=4728 How Movies Signify Urgency Y’ever (yes, y’ever is a word – it’s a contraction of “did you ever”). OK. Let’s start again shall we? J’ever, I mean, y’ever notice this dramatic plot device in movies? The template for this dramatic device operates thusly: In the middle of a rather sedate scene, off in the distance, […]

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