“21 Grams” and “Babel” writer haunted by “The Burning Plain”

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Saturday, May 9th, 2009

By Michael Knox, mknox@modernfilmzine.com

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Guillermo Arriaga still remembers the blazing image of his neighbor’s home that sent him and others from his neighborhood racing down the street.

The home was fully engulfed in flames when a fireman told Arriaga that there was still someone inside the home, burning.

The scene was one that Arriaga would later build on for his directorial debut on the movie, “The Burning Plain.”

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