Go Into The Story Script Read and Analysis: “Flight”

Beginning June 13, our next movie script read and analysis will be Flight, written by John Gatins. Starring Denzel Washington. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Our daily schedule:

Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Tuesday: Major Plot Points
Wednesday: Sequences
Thursday: Psychological Journey
Friday: Takeaways

You may download the script here.

Reading scripts is hugely important. Analyzing them even more so. If you want to work in Hollywood as a writer, you need to develop your critical analytical skills. This is one way to do that.

So seize this opportunity and join in the conversation!

If you have found interviews and/or analysis of the movie, please post in comments.

REQUEST: We have some incredible scripts in the GITS library which we have yet to analyze including 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, Dallas Buyers Club, Frozen, Gone Girl, Looper, Nebraska, Nightcrawler, The Wolf of Wall Street, and many more.

I am looking for volunteers to read a script and provide a scene-by-scene breakdown for it to be used as part of our weekly series. What do you get? Beyond your name being noted here, my thanks, and some creative juju, hopefully you will learn something about story structure and develop another skill set which is super helpful in learning and practicing the craft.

To see examples of scene-by-scene breakdowns, go here. Part of the goal is to create a library of breakdowns for writers to have at their disposal for research and learning.

You may see the scripts we can use for the series — free and legal — by going here.

Thanks to any of you who will rise to the occasion and take on a scene-by-scene breakdown.

See you Monday to discuss the script for Flight.

The movie’s website here.

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