7:00 Setup: Present day - a young women uncovers skeletal remains of two
Transition: Music and worn out shoes from the distant past
Exposition: A subservient man cookie mingles with a Chinese man who may have killed a man
Setting: gold chase in California
Start: Narrator reminiscing about his childhood buddies
Characters: 4 archetypes - smart narrator, handsome bad boy, troubled boy with an abusive home, gregarious chubby boy
Music: iconic song quietly playing in the back as instrumental
Setup: boys in search for a dead body of a 12 year-old
Potential Conflict: a group of older bullies that parallels the boys
Significant Settings: treehouse, locked junkyard
Friendship Signatures: Special Password, Spit Skinning, Coin Flipping, Dissing Mothers
Flashbacks: Protagonist’s perfect quarterback brother vs writer (narrator was once a promising writer)
Philosophy: Narrator the writer, Importance and impact of fathers
Story w/story: Lard Ass barfing story
Everyone is on the guilty continuum
Spike Lee & Ed Norton