2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 24 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 5: Dialogue A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 23 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 4: Themes A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Great Scene: “Being John Malkovich” Craig is introduced to the 7 1/2 floor of his future place of employment.
The Business of Screenwriting: Hip pocket representation The gray area between being signed by an agent or manager… and kinda signed.
Thanks for that. Which is to say, Waymond can exist as a Second Protagonist ... a Mentor ... a Trickster ... an Attractor, either intermittently or even…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 22 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 3: Characters A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Snacks It’s like maybe fifteen years ago and I’m reading an interview with noted playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon. And in this interview…
Hollywood Tales “[Paul] Schrader probed the edges of Hollywood, working as a reader at Warners for fifteen dollars a synopsis and teaching himself…
For as much of a wild ride the script (and movie) create ... The major impression I come away with after reading the script is this: It's amazing that this movie got made. A24 and the other funding…
Blake, I found the script pretty "trackable," but I saw the movie before reading the script. Re dual protagonists: Who do you see as the two Protagonists? As I say, there's no right way to use archetypes in analyzing scripts. In my…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 21 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 2: Plot A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Screenwriting 101: Billy Wilder “Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur…
Page One: “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) Animated screenplay by Linda Woolverton, story by Brenda Chapman & Chris Sanders & Burny Mattinson & Kevin Harkey & Brian Pimental & Bruce…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge: Day 20 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 1: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.
Great Scene: “American Graffiti” It’s Harrison Ford’s breakout role as Bob Falfa, a wise-cracking farm boy.
On Writing “People write me all the time, or get in touch with me about ‘What should I do if I want to be a writer? I say, ‘Well, do you really want…
