Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Groundhog Day
We’ve had a successful relaunch of the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series. I say relaunch because we have done this type of thing before. For the next month, I will be spotlighting previous movie scripts we have studied.
Today: Groundhog Day (1993)
Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, story by Danny Rubin
IMDb plot summary: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.
Links to the entire February 2013 series:
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.
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.