Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Black Swan
We’ve had a successful relaunch of the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series. I say relaunch because we have done this type of thing before. For the next month, I will be spotlighting previous movie scripts we have studied.
Today: Black Swan (2011)
Written by Mark Heyman and Andrés Heinz and John J. McLaughlin, story by Andrés Heinz
IMDb plot summary: A ballet dancer wins the lead in “Swan Lake” and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan — Princess Odette — but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Links to the entire October 2012 series on Black Swan:
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
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For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.
Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.
Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.