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** In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, after Jeanine's attempts to have captured Divergents open the box fail, she says, "We need to find the very special one." The Producer asks if this is just a placeholder line, and, [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty after a pause]], the Screenwriter says, "...[[BlatantLies Yes]]."

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** In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' Insurgent]]'' pitch meeting, after Jeanine's attempts to have captured Divergents open the box fail, she says, "We need to find the very special one." The Producer asks if this is just a placeholder line, and, [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty after a pause]], the Screenwriter says, "...[[BlatantLies Yes]]."



* PolitenessJudo: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine doesn't use her mind-control technology to force the people to turn in Trish rather than force Trish to turn herself in under threat of having the mind-controlled peopl kill themselves. The Screenwriter says that's a good question, and changes the subject after the Producer thanks hi.

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* PolitenessJudo: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' Insurgent]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine doesn't use her mind-control technology to force the people to turn in Trish Tris rather than force Trish Tris to turn herself in under threat of having the mind-controlled peopl people kill themselves. The Screenwriter says that's a good question, and changes the subject after the Producer thanks hi.him.



* PsychicAssistedSuicide: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine has her mind-control victims commit suicide to force Tris to turn herself in, rather than try to capture Tris, but gets no answer.

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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' Insurgent]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine has her mind-control victims commit suicide to force Tris to turn herself in, rather than try to capture Tris, but gets no answer.

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* PermanentPlaceholder: {{Invoked}} On a few occasions a particularly cliché bit of dialogue is described as being a placeholder the Screenwriter put in but never bothered changing, sometimes obviously lying about his intention to change it to the producer. For example, on "[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith from my point of view, the Jedi are evil!]]"
-->"It '''was''' placeholder dialogue, but I lost the login information for my laptop so we're kind of stuck with it now."

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* PermanentPlaceholder: {{Invoked}} On a few occasions a particularly cliché bit of dialogue is described as being a placeholder the Screenwriter put in but never bothered changing, sometimes obviously lying about his intention to change it to the producer. For producer.
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example, on "[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith from my point of view, the Jedi are evil!]]"
-->"It --->"It '''was''' placeholder dialogue, but I lost the login information for my laptop so we're kind of stuck with it now."
** In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, after Jeanine's attempts to have captured Divergents open the box fail, she says, "We need to find the very special one." The Producer asks if this is just a placeholder line, and, [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty after a pause]], the Screenwriter says, "...[[BlatantLies Yes]].
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* PolitenessJudo: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine doesn't use her mind-control technology to force the people to turn in Trish rather than force Trish to turn herself in under threat of having the mind-controlled peopl kill themselves. The Screenwriter says that's a good question, and changes the subject after the Producer thanks hi.


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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: In the ''[[Film/{{Divergent}} Allegiant]]'' pitch meeting, the Producer asks why Jeanine has her mind-control victims commit suicide to force Tris to turn herself in, rather than try to capture Tris, but gets no answer.


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** The series will sometimes make fun of characters suddenly changing their minds, usually accepting a course of action that they'd opposed not too long ago, by having the Screenwriter say they opposed it so they could change their mind later.

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* PerfectlyCromulentWord: In the ''Film/{{Cats}}'' pitch meeting, the Producer is confused that the Screenwriter's decided to keep "saying the made-up word 'Jellicle' and not provide any context or explanation".

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* PerfectlyCromulentWord: In the ''Film/{{Cats}}'' pitch meeting, the Producer is confused that the Screenwriter's decided to keep "saying about the made-up word 'Jellicle' "jellicle":
-->'''Screenwriter:''' And so they start singing jellicle songs for jellicle cats.\\
'''Producer:''' ''[very confused]'' "Jellicle"?\\
'''Screenwriter:''' Exactly. The song goes "Because jellicles can and jellicles do. Jellicles do and jellicles can."\\
'''Producer:''' Right, but what does "jellicle" mean, though?\\
'''Screenwriter:''' Jellicles, they can and they do, so they do and they can. They're jellicles!\\
'''Proucer:''' Is it like short for "angelical", like "angelic" or something?\\
'''Screenwriter:''' No, it's just a jellicle. Jellicle, jellicle, jellicle!\\
'''Producer:''' You're just gonna keep saying the word "jellicle" over and over with no explanation?\\
'''Screenwriter:''' That's right, we're just gonna keep saying the made-up word "jellicle"
and not provide any context or explanation".explanation.\\
'''Producer:''' Oh, ''very'' confusing.\\
'''Screenwriter:''' So then we're gonna find out that all these cats are competing for a prize because there's a jellicle moon.\\
'''Producer:''' Oh, so the moon is jellicle too now?\\
'''Screenwriter:''' Of course the moon is jellicle!\\
'''Producer:''' I just wish you could provide literally any explanation.\\
'''Screenwriter:''' Well, I'm not gonna.

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