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Once you have created a variable and have assigned an instance of the Movie class to it, you can refer to the instance's script, acting, and direction instance variables. To refer to an instance variable, you join the name of the Movie variable, via the field-selection operator, to the name of the instance variable in which you are interested. Thus, m.script produces the value of the script instance variable of the Movie instance assigned to the variable named m.

Once you know how to refer to a Movie instance's instance variables, you are free to assign values to those instance variables, as well as to retrieve previously assigned values:

... m.script ... <-- Retrieve a value from the script instance variable 
m.script = 3;    <-- Assign a new value to the script instance variable