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The Chinese Restaurant

Category: Scenes

This exercise was submitted by Marilyn Horowitz, screenwriting instructor for NYU’s Graduate Film program. Visit her online at:
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THE CHINESE RESTAURANT

As a fun exercise this month, with a group, visit a Chinese Restaurant (or get take-out) and record everyone’s fortune cookie message. Then, a week later, contact the people from the group, remind them of their fortune, and find out how closely it resembles what actually happened to them over the previous week. It’s a fun exercise to see how serendipity manifests itself in people’s lives and can later add texture and subtext to a scene.