How To Read A Screenplay (Part 2): The Scene-By-Scene Breakdown

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
14 min readOct 9, 2020

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There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.

Al Pacino and Brian De Palma reading a screenplay on the set of “Scarface”

I can’t remember exactly how this subject came up on the blog, but it did, and when I asked whether people would like to explore how to read and analyze a screenplay, the response was quite positive. So here we are with yet another GITS series on screenwriting.

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