Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Moonrise Kingdom
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 past month, I have been spotlighting previous movie scripts we have studied.
Today: Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
IMDb plot summary: A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Links to the entire December 2014 series:
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Major Plot Points
Sequences
Psychological Journey
Takeaways
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.