me: and meanwhile she serves as voice of reason me: thus allowing chance for characters to explain their reasoning for wanting to do various unconventional things that they consider me: and thus makes all that simpler Robert: serving as a stand in for the audience as well me: second scene now takes care of explaining whatever backstory and protagonist's basic philosophy that's necessary to get in to the good stuff me: which is the interplay between the various characters as they try to decide what to do, why they would seek any particular goal in terms of their control over the election, etc me: yeah, that too Robert: yes, the election stuff as a direction will keep this unique me: I'm hoping to make the peripheral characters each particularly interesting as well to, like, add value me: I don't know film terminology Robert: i'm not really schooling you because i want you to express your actual voice without worrying too much about the niceties of screen-writing