Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: The Good Dinosaur
This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie The Good Dinosaur, screenplay by Meg LeFauve, story by Peter Sohn & Erik Benson & Meg LeFauve & Kelsey Mann & Bob Peterson, original concept and development by Bob Peterson, additional screenplay material by Peter Hedges & Adrian Molina.
IMDb plot summary: In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Plot
Character
Theme
Dialogue
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.
If there’s a movie script for which you’d like to do a scene-by-scene breakdown and use that as the basis of a week long analysis and discussion, post your suggestion in comments or email me.