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Daily Dialogue — January 10, 2020

“We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!”

Great, Andrew, and thanks!

I have yet to see the movie. Did you like it?

The most significant theme I see at work in the script and movie is the story’s central conceit…

Billi lies about how well she’s doing as a writer in NYC

Script Analysis: “The Farewell” — Part 4: Themes

Read the script for the acclaimed drama comedy and analyze all this week.

2020 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 7

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

The Business of Screenwriting: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs [Part 15]

“This is it: A screenwriter’s fantasy. You write a spec script. Your reps send it out. Then more than one buyer compete against each other…

Daily Dialogue — January 9, 2020

“Christine, have you got anything to drink? Any little thing at all, I’m not the fussy type. I prefer bourbon and water, but any little…

Great to hear, April, and I agree: The script is a joy to read, a wonderful balance between…

Fantastic story to boo!

This is one of those scripts which defy convention as there does not seem to be a Nemesis figure…

This is where it’s instructive to go back to basics and remember that a Nemesis is at its core an opposition dynamic. That is, anything or…

The movie stands up, even in this era where cynicism abounds.

It’s a Wonderful Life is a wonderful movie!

Script Analysis: “The Farewell” — Part 3: Characters

Read the script for the acclaimed drama comedy and analyze all this week.

2020 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 6

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

Download 10 WGA Nominated Scripts

The PDFs of five Original Screenplay nominated scripts and five Adapted Screenplay nominated scripts. For free!

Daily Dialogue — January 8, 2020

“Tonight, we will be partaking of a liquid repast as we wind our way up the Golden Mile. Commencing with an inaugural tankard in The First…

Joel Coen of the Coen brothers once remarked, “All movies are an attempt to remake The Wizard of Oz.

Consider the structure of TWOO:

Script Analysis: “The Farewell” — Part 2: Plot

Read the script for the acclaimed drama comedy and analyze all this week.

2020 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 5

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

Screenwriting 101: Melissa Iqbal

“ I think it’s so important to write in the language of cinema. It should always evoke the experience of watching a film. And I love…

Daily Dialogue — January 7, 2020

Dr. Fritz Fassbender: Miss Lefevre… every time she sees me, she screams, because every time I see her, I attack her. Michael James: You…

What a script!

What really struck me about the script — and the scene-by-scene breakdown puts a spotlight on it — is the theme of lying. I’m guessing if…

Script Analysis: “The Farewell” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown

Read the script for the acclaimed drama comedy and analyze all this week.

2020 Dialogue-Writing Challenge: Day 4

A chance for you to work on your dialogue chops and win free prizes!

On Writing

Daily Dialogue — January 6, 2020

Daddy Warbucks: You spend your evenings in the shanties. Miss Hannigan: You had me followed. Daddy Warbucks: Imbibing quarts of bathtub…

The Theology of Cinema: Guilt

“The danger of our guilt, both personal and collective, is less that we won’t take it to heart than that we’ll take it to heart overmuch…