Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Black Swan”

A 6 part series on the 2011 WGA nominated best original screenplay.

Screenplay by Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John J. McLaughlin, story by Andres Heinz

IMDb plot summary: A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.

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.