Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman
IMDb plot summary: Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
Links to the entire September 2012 series:
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Dialogue
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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.