Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “(500) Days of Summer”

A 6 part series on the 2009 WGA nominated best original screenplay.

Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

IMDb plot summary: An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn’t believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

Links to the GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

General Discussion
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
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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 all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

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.