GITS Script Reading & Analysis: What to read next?

The last week of every month, we read and analyze a movie script. Thus far this year we have done The Sixth Sense and Up in the Air.

What shall we read next?

This would be for the week of Monday, March 26-Friday, March 30.

Considerations:

* The script has to be hosted at some publicly accessible site like myPDFscripts.

* The script has a wide appeal, not a small niche movie. The goal here is to get as many people as possible reading as many scripts as possible.

* The script should offer something of interest in terms of plot, character, theme, and dialogue, our primary areas of breaking down and analyzing the story.

Other than that, it’s wide open what we select. You want to read a classic script from the 40s or 50s, great. You want to read something contemporary, also great. You want to suggest a specific genre like thriller or comedy, groovy. You want to read a first draft compared to a movie or a shooting script, way groovy.

If you get sick and tired of me pounding on you to read scripts, how about this? The words of Scott Frazier, a screenwriter who has sold four spec scripts in the last 2 years. From last week’s screenwriting roundtable:

I think reading scripts is the number one thing you can possibly do to become a better writer in a very, very short amount of time. There’s so much to be learned from a hundred pages of a Tony Gilroy script. If you’re actually paying attention and you’re not just reading it to read it, but actually reading it to — again, how we were talking about watching movies — to read it to understand it. You can learn so much in a hundred pages of a script, more than you could ever learn two or three books.

What is your suggestion for our next GITS Script Reading & Analysis?

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