Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: It’s a Wonderful Life
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: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and Frank Capra, story by Philip Van Doren Stern
IMDb plot summary: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
Links to the entire December 2012 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.