Great Scene: “Halloween” This is one of the iconic scenes in the history of horror movies: Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) versus Michael Myers (Tony Moran) in the Final…
The Theology of Cinema: Grace “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.”
Reflections on Carl Jung and the Protagonist’s Journey A five-part series exploring Jung’s concept of individuation.
Page One: “Splash” (1983) Screenplay by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman, screen story by Bruce Jay Friedman, based on a story by Brian Grazer
Reflections on Carl Jung : Become Who You Are Carl Jung’s theory of individuation is directly applicable to the Protagonist’s journey in a screenplay.
Spec Script Deal: “Fight Fast” Legendary Pictures acquires drama action spec script “Fight Fast” written by Chris Sparling. Via Deadline:
Writing and the Creative Life: The Virtues of Spacing Out and Goofing Off Finally, science is good for something! Spacing out rules!
Tarantino, Sorkin, and Dialogue as Purpose Analysis of long dialogue-centric scenes in The Social Network and Pulp Fiction reveals that underneath the entertaining conversations lies…
Reflections on Carl Jung : Psychological Rule as Fate’ Carl Jung’s theory of individuation is directly applicable to the Protagonist’s journey in a screenplay.
Reader Question: What if you fall out of love with a script? “What about a script you fall out of love with after 2–3 drafts, and just can’t finish? Put it aside for now or just push through?”
The Business of Screenwriting: Withdrawing screen credit and pseudonyms Let’s begin this post with a quote from arguably the dean of contemporary American screenwriters William Goldman:
I found this 1978 interview online: https://www.worldcat.org/title/oral-history-interview-with-harlan-howard-1978-december/oclc/58841227
So-Called Screenwriting Rule: Do not use ‘we see / we hear’ The narrative form we call a screenplay is an organic entity, changing radically over the years. As we have discussed, during the era of…
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: Read your dialogue aloud This is truly one of the easiest things you can do to improve your dialogue writing: When you finish a draft of your script, read aloud…
Reflections on Carl Jung: Make the Darkness Conscious Carl Jung’s theory of individuation is directly applicable to the Protagonist’s journey in a screenplay.
Don’t stand in water where you should be fishing I use fishing as a metaphor for one’s approach to screenwriting. Seriously.
