Go Into The Story Week In Review: November 25-December 1, 2013
Links to the week’s most notable posts:
30 Things About Screenwriting: (25) Set-ups and Payoffs
30 Things About Screenwriting: (26) Test your story concept
30 Things About Screenwriting: (27) Minimum words, maximum impact
30 Things About Screenwriting: (28) The spirit of the spec
30 Things About Screenwriting: (29) The only way out is through
30 Things About Screenwriting: (30) Go into the story and find the animals
Award season screenplay download (29 PDF scripts)
Classic 80s Movie: A Fish Called Wanda
Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Fear
Declare Your Independents: Volume 16
Evan Rachel Wood speaks out against MPAA hypocrisy
Go On Your Own Quest: “Bad movie dialogue speaks in complete sentences”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Every scene should advance the story”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Each scene must be a drama in itself”
Go On Your Own Quest: “Movies are short for moving pictures”
Great Character: Holly (Hannah and Her Sisters)
Holiday Box Office: The Battle for the Over-35s
Interview (Audio): Stanley Kubrick
Interview (Video): Great Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Interview (Written): Terence Winer (“Boardwalk Empire”)
Screenwriting 101: Destin Daniel Cretton
Screenwriting News (November 25-December 1, 2013)
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 14(B): The Conditions of a Tragedy
THR: Cinematographers Roundtable [video]
THR: Producers Roundtable [video]
Why is the Orphan archetype so resonant in stories