2. What are some of the connections between Stranger than Paradise with the New American Cinema, including Shadows?
--the ambiguity of the characters from shadows are alot like the characters in Stranger, leaving their motivations and actions unpredictable.

3. In what specific ways does Jarmusch’s script deviate from standard scriptwriting structure and format?
--The script was much shorter than an ordinary script that has 1 page per minute of screen time and the film is much longer than 50 min/50 pages. Many of the scenes don't contain dialogue in the script, it was used as more of a blueprint than a script. The film "operates on a purely visual and stylistic level." It is more like a brief description of each scene. It has three sections, but they dont do what most three section screenplay structures would do--Introduce characters, conflict, resolution.

4. What is an "execution dependent" screenplay?
-- They refer to this sort of ambiguous screenplay structure as "execution dependent," so financers would be unable to efficiently predict how the film might do because the entire thing is left to the creativity of the director while on set rather than a planned out process. So all faith has to be put into the filmmakers.

4. What are the similarities and differences between Stranger than Paradise and punk films?
--He was trying to avoid using characters that were stereotypes or a part of a trend. He says, he "wasn't trying to make a statement about a generation." Therefore Murphy writes that the film is "less punk than neo-beat." It has the attitude, but not the obsession with violence like the stereotypical punk film does.

1. What does Flo Liebowitz mean by “dialogue as behavior”?
--she rights that we learn much about the characters through their "conventional habits." WE learn more about them through when they choose to talk and not, their tones, and other characteristics like this.