Script Analysis: “After the Wedding” — Part 6: Takeaways Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed drama mystery starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Billy Crudup.
Daily Dialogue theme next week: Pizza Join the Daily Dialogue crew: 4,391 consecutive days and counting.
How I Wrote ‘Arrival’ A Behind the Curtain video featuring Eric Heisserer talking about how he adapted the Ted Chiang short story into a hit science fiction…
Daily Dialogue — May 23, 2020 “Ah, no wonder you’re extinct. I’m gonna run you over when I come back down!”
Laura, I zeroed in on maternity. It actually recalls the 1988 movie Stepmom: A terminally-ill woman must deal with her ex-husband’s new lover, who will be their children’s…
Movie Story Type: Revenge There are genres (e.g., Action, Comedy, Drama). Cross genres (e.g., Action-Thriller, Comedy-Science Fiction). Sub-genres (e.g., Romantic…
Go Into The Story Resource: Black List Writers on the Craft Some of Hollywood’s top screenwriters share insights from my interviews.
Script Analysis: “After the Wedding” — Part 5: Dialogue Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed drama mystery starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Billy Crudup.
Writing and the Creative Life: There are no useless ideas “If it is true that the best way to come up with a good idea is to generate lots of them, that means we will intersect with plenty of ideas…
Daily Dialogue — May 22, 2020 “I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth. And indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the…
Go Into The Story Resource: Character Introductions Everything you need to know about the subject… and probably more.
Script Analysis: “After the Wedding” — Part 4: Themes Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed drama mystery starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Billy Crudup.
Spec Script Deal: “Flight” Paramount Pictures acquires thriller spec script “Flight” written by Mark Chapman. Via Deadline:
The Business of Screenwriting: OWA Three little letters: OWA. But they mean big things for Hollywood screenwriters. What do these letter stand for?
Daily Dialogue — May 21, 2020 Charles: There I was, standing there in the church, and for the first time in my whole life I realized I totally and utterly loved one…
Cameron, I promote my Screenwriting Master Class courses on average once every two weeks. Hopefully you will find plenty of other content on the blog which is more long-form in nature.
Personally, David, I don’t like the use of a semi-colon. As far as “beep… beep… beep…” is concerned, again, no rule. You could write it like this.
Jerry, I hope I made the point emphatically enough in the original post: There are not rules. To your English teacher’s point, I’ve read scripts where the use of ellipses and double dashes, especially in dialogue, distracted from the…
Sharon, glad to give you a reminder about how much you love Shawshank. Sometime, read the script while watching the movie. I’d guess there’s about 15% of script content which is cut from the film. Fun to…
Laura, another reason it would be interesting to compare to the Danish original is to see where… I don’t know much about the Danish film industry, but my instinct is European films are less constrained by the conventions of Hollywood…
A Story in Six Words That’s why I have the six-word rule. You got six words… count ‘em… one, two, three, four, five, six… six words in your logline to get my…
Script Analysis: “After the Wedding” — Part 3: Characters Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed drama mystery starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Billy Crudup.
