And I think you did it in the writing without any precede. It's a question of executing the form. Most of our writers have the ability to make things clear without having to recapitulate everything. You might not know every piece of historic detail, but you know there's a crisis. You can hear the papers going down.
Every story has to have tension, and be able to stand alone.
I wanted it to be as spare as possible. People were waiting for a happy ending. He wasn't a pure victim. People never are. Willie in part knew what he was getting into.