Here’s the full quote from the Deadline article: In the not-so-distant past, America was gripped by a political movement that promised to eliminate the “unfit” from our country. This is…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 275th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2017] Here are prompts for the 3rd annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.
Interview (Written): Derek Kolstad A 2014 interview with the screenwriter of John Wick and John Wick 2.
Daily Dialogue — February 4, 2017 “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just…
Character Introductions: Part 5 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Spec Script Deal: “Unfit” Amazon Studios acquires historical drama spec script “Unfit” written by Melissa London Hilfers. From Deadline:
Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 5: Dialogue Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
Writing and the Creative Life: “The incurable disease of writing” Another in my series on the nexus between writing and creativity.
How good are you at handling exposition? In Hollywood, there is a saying I’ve heard more than once: “Exposition = Death.” Why? Because nothing can bore readers more than the…
Character Introductions: Part 4 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 4: Themes Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
I took that as a sign of how discombobulated she was at the moment, almost as if a reflection of… But yes, it is an unusual line, unexpected, so I can see your point.
The Business of Screenwriting: Commencement of principal photography There are several significant days in a screenwriter’s life.
Daily Dialogue — February 2, 2017 “Boy, I am two seconds from being on you like white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm. I’m gonna put my foot so…
Character Introductions: Part 3 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Script Analysis: “Jackie” — Part 3: Characters Read the script for the Oscar nominated movie and analyze it all this week.
Great Scene: “Saving Private Ryan” It’s not the beach scene. Or the “Earn this” scene. It’s another one.
Daily Dialogue — February 1, 2017 “You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?”
Screenwriter Noah Oppenheim makes several key choices in how to tell this story and in some ways… Both scripts use a framing device in the present to bounce back and forth to the past: In TSN, it’s two deposition hearings. In Jackie…
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