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The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.

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Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
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