Take The Island

Alden Olmsted
7 min readMar 30, 2024

Chapter Ten of my Indie-Film Journal A Virus Ate My Movie!

Storming the castle

Is there a clearer example of how to set up your finale than Wayne’s World? Wayne actually looks at us, the audience, and TELLS US what he’s about to do. And then does it! It feels fresh because of the style and the characters but it’s almost laughable how un-sneaky it is. And yet we NEVER NOTICE.

Because it’s so good.

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Alden Olmsted

I was born in a small town in Northern California just another latch-key kid obsessed with BMX and Tom Petty. Now I make films and travel and write when I can.