ABSTRACT
Symbols are the domain of the writer. Nobody else on a movie shoot is going to be thinking this way. To bring the work more depth, meaning, complexity, or emotion, think in terms of what choosing the right symbol can do. Remember the symbols in the Cute Meet scene from Moonstruck. The phallic loaves of bread he bakes in the open-flame ovens. He even says, "Bread is life". His missing hand, meaning he needs a new right hand. A mate to replace his lost love and part of himself. People are already rooting for Loretta to complete him. In Pretty Woman, when Edward is lost on Hollywood Boulevard in a Lotus Esprit he borrowed from a friend, he stops to ask directions of the tall leggy lady on the corner, the hooker Vivian. The Cute Meet in What's Up, Doc? happens in a drugstore where hapless scientist Howard Bannister goes to buy some aspirin for a headache.
