Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “12 Years a Slave”

A 6 part series on the 2014 Academy Award winning script.

Screenplay by John Ridley based on a “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup.

IMDb plot summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Links to the GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Plot
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
Takeaways

Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

For links to over 100 free and legal script downloads, go here.