Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Toy Story 3
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: Toy Story 3 (2010)
Screenplay by Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
IMDb plot summary: The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it’s up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren’t abandoned and to return home.
Links to the entire October 2011 series:
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
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.