Hollywood Tales “I’ve always written for my own edification and for fun but I have this fear of rejection so I spent my entire life being a writer who…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 25 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
Interview (Part 2): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
Script To Screen: “The Way Way Back” A scene from the 2013 movie The Way Way Back, written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Screenwriting 101: Sam Boyer “The thing that scared me and screwed me up the first couple of times I tried writing a feature was I would blind go into it, and not know…
Page One: “City Hall” (1996) Written by Ken Lipper and Paul Schrader & Nicholas Pileggi and Bo Goldman
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 24 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up with…
Interview (Part 1): Gillian Weeks My interview with 2022 Black List writer for her script OH THE HUMANITY.
On Writing “A book won’t stand or fall on the very first line of prose — the story has got to be there, and that’s the real work. And yet a really…
Good to hear, Rahab. I encourage you to check out this archive: https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/go-into-the-story-script-reading-analysis-series-ced4b77fc285
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 23 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Nope” The entire 6-part series delving into the science fiction horror movie.
Interview (Video): Ari Aster An hour-plus conversation with the writer-director of Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau is Afraid.
Script To Screen: “The Wizard of Oz” From the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, screenplay by Noel Langley & Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley from…
Script Analysis: “Nope” — Part 6: Takeaways A week-long analysis of the screenplay for the science fiction horror movie written and directed by Jordan Peele. Download. Read. Discuss.
Let’s track the use of the word “Nope” in the script. 1: Phyllis on the set of the TV series: “Somehow you’d think a man who can send a rocket into space would be able to manage a halfway…
As noted, there’s a lot going on in the story with several themes at play, but I’m just going to… In an interview to promote the movie, Jordan Peele said this: “The word we used the most on set, was spectacle. There’s something magical…
I look at the brother and sister characters, OJ and Emerald as Co-Protagonists. The Alien (Jean Jacket) is an actual physical Nemesis as it exists to devour humans and animals alike. As OJ says midway through the story…
As I noted in my comments in the Scene-By-Scene Breakdown article, while there is a conventional… I think that writer-director Jordan Peele pulls off a deft bit of plotting which aligns with some of the key themes in the story, most…
Monster movie? After reading the script and watching the movie, I think it’s all of the above and escapist fare. What Jordan Peele has achieved with Nope…
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 22 This is the 14th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Why a story idea each day for the month? Because the best way to come up…
