Script To Screen: “Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” So many great monologues in the 2014 movie Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), but this one may be the best.
Paul, thanks for that quote. It’s a challenge to have any sort of financial / career success in the entertainment business. Reminds me of a quote from Levon Helm who…
Well put, James: Even as unsympathetic as he is — stealing money from his mother, his cantankerous… And yes, a brilliant performance.
Reader Question: What about ageism and screenwriting? And who is the oldest person to win an Academy Award for Best Screenplay?
Follow Your Bliss: A Story Dotan Negrin travels the world with his piano and makes friends everywhere with the universal language of music.
Update: 2017 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 3 New Scripts, 20 Total! Get these PDFs now before the links disappear.
Script To Screen: “The Big Lebowski” The scene that kick-starts the entire plot from the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski, written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
Great Character: Miles (“Sideways”) Protagonists must be sympathetic. They have to be likeable. We need to root for them. That’s straight out of Screenwriting 101, right?
Adrian Molina on the Pixar movie “Coco” My notes from an appearance by the movie’s co-writer and co-director.
Video: “Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic” A great 35 minute retrospective on one of cinema’s most beloved movies.
Ava DuVernay: Advice to a New Filmmaker Words of wisdom from the dynamic director of Selma and A Wrinkle in Time.
Script To Screen: “Big Fish” A scene from the 2003 movie Big Fish, screenplay by John August, novel by Daniel Wallace.
Screenwriting 101: Issac Adamson “I’m not a big high concept guy. I’ll stumble into a good high concept once in a while, but I usually don’t get those ideas that instantly…
Theme = Meaning More than just the moral or premise of the story, theme can best be understood to be about what a story MEANS.
Script To Screen: “Being John Malkovich” The 7 1/2 floor scene from Being John Malkovich (written by Charlie Kaufman). Setup: Craig (John Cusack) goes to an unusual office for an…
On Writing “Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you’ll continue to get better and better…
Daily Dialogue — November 27, 2017 “The Defense Department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid.”
Kristina, yes. So circling back to the original post, oftentimes we can raise the stakes of the story by digging deeper into our Protagonist’s…
Reader Question: Does a Mentor character always have to be right? What if the Protagonist has to turn away from logic and follow their heart?
Hollywood Tales “Virginia. 1990. I’m thirty-five years old, married with two very young kids. No one’s asking, but I get an idea for a love story where the…
