That scene with Carla is chilling. I have a slightly different take on the car crash. The Coens have a sustained interest in the fickle nature of fate. In fact, I wrote a…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Destroyer” The entire 6 part series delving into the gritty crime drama.
Screenwriting News (January 21 — January 27, 2019) Script sales, pitch deals, greenlit projects, talent attachments, and more.
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Daily Dialogue — January 27, 2019 “Think of it this way. You’re running on hot bricks. You leave your feet on the ground, you’ll get burned.”
Let me focus my takeaway on a universal theme which lies at the core of the story: Regret. Erin Bell fucked up. In a big way. Lost her lover. Responsible indirectly for the death of an innocent victim. Her life has gone south…
Yes, Rose, characters in good scripts are complex. So a Mentor may don a nemesis mask… an attractor mask… a co-protagonist mask… a trickster mask for any given scene to try to accomplish…
“Character driven.” Which is to say the work we put in immersing ourselves in the lives of our characters and delving into their multilayered psyche, then…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 377th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Script Analysis: “Destroyer” — Part 6: Takeaways Read the script for the gritty crime drama and analyze it this week.
Download 2019 Oscar Nominated Best Original and Adapted Screenplays The Favourite, First Reformed, Green Book, Roma, Vice, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale…
Script to Screen: “No Country For Old Men” The coin toss scene from No Country For Old Men (2007), screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, one of the most riveting moments in the…
Movie Story Type: Frustration Comedy With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types. One of them: Frustration Comedy.
Script Analysis: “Destroyer” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the script for the gritty crime drama and analyze it this week.
2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 19 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
Daily Dialogue — January 25, 2019 “I was a big slut, but I’m not anymore. There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the…
Reader Question: Are there differences between seeking representation with a manager versus and… The answer is yes. As one manager put it to me: “Agents wear suits, managers wear blue jeans.” Why that makes a big difference to you.
Script Analysis: “Destroyer” — Part 4: Themes Read the script for the gritty crime drama and analyze it this week.
2019 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 18 A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!
The Business of Screenwriting: The Travails of Pitching (Part 1) — The Distracted Exec We are seated in a studio executive’s office for a pitch meeting. He’s late. Very late. We’ve been waiting for close to a half-hour. His…
This is one of those stories for which these character archetypes work well. Shelby is an Attractor character, but so is Chris. It would be one thing if Chris were just a memory, but in the script he comes to ‘life’…
