VISUAL: Slow, quiet shot of a screenwriter's desk. Coffee mug. Notebook. An empty chair.

NARRATOR (V.O.) What gets lost isn't just money. It's rehearsal time. It's character scenes. It's the scene where two people talk in a car for four minutes and you learn everything about their marriage.

INTERVIEW CLIP (Fictional composite actor or real indie director) DIRECTOR: "I was pitched a movie recently. A dramedy. Two sisters. One has a secret. Budget? $4 million. The executive said: 'We love it. But can she be a spy? And can we add a car chase?' I said, 'That's not the movie.' He said, 'Then it's not our movie.'"

NARRATOR (V.O.) The middle class of cinema has been evicted. And we are all living in the penthouse or the basement.

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