Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with the author of the self-help book “Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit”, Amanda Graham, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Pee Wee's Big Adventure impact, Edward Scissorhands analysis, and Gone With The Wind influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Amanda Graham also discusses how and why she wrote the self-help book Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit

Movies That Changed Your Life

Find out about the writing of Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.

[1:00] Talking about the self-help book “Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit”

[19:20] How much has your perception of losing your shit changed since writing the book?

[23:00] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

Pee Wee's Big Adventure impact

[23:40] Amanda Graham describes how she was in a apocalyptic cult and there was no joy in it. And how watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure was so joyful and it was the first time she felt real. It was such a double fingers to everything she had been dragged through.

Edward Scissorhands analysis

[29:30] Amanda Graham shares how when Edward Scissorhands came out she was attending Liberty University, which is an exceptionally conservative, religious American university. It was miserable and she was in a group called ‘The Liberty Freaks’. Outside the university was a $1 theatre and you weren’t supposed to go. You would get in trouble for going to see a movie. And when Edward Scissorhands came out, she saw it 14 (fourteen) times.

Gone With The Wind Influence

[35:00] Amanda Graham talks about how watching Gone With The Wind was super impactful. She watched it on VHS, and what made her uncomfortable was the way it was re-writing history. She watched it with her mom and she remembers her mother saying: “I wish we could go back to those days” and thinking ‘are you kidding me?’ She went off and did some research into book and found it was written in homage to the Ku Klux Klan.

Key Take Aways:

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

- Learn about why Amanda Graham wrote the self-help book Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit

• Understand cinema’s transformative power through Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Gone With The Wind (1939)
• Full show notes and transcript:

About the Guest:

Amanda Graham is a screenwriter whose past work includes writing 23 eps of Apple/BBC TV and script editing, ghostwriting and punching up scripts and pitch decks for 90+ film and TV development projects including for the BBC, Channel 4, and Zero Gravity Group.

Her self-help book Good Stuff to Read When You’re About to Lose Your Sh*t which gathers everything she learned, tried, and ignored during the worst decade of her life to help others not feel alone) is out now

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Credits:

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Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)

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