Script To Screen: “Say Anything”

A memorable scene from Say Anything (written by Cameron Crowe):

Setup: Lloyd drives over to Diane’s house to deliver a message.

INT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Diane is lying on her bed, upset. We hear music coming from 
outside. Diane lifts her head slightly.

EXT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Lloyd has driven over, and is holding a boom box high above his 
head with both hands. It is playing ‘In Your Eyes’.

INT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Diane lets her head drop back onto the pillow when she realizes 
where the music is coming from, and who it is.

EXT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Lloyd is still there, in the same position as before.

INT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Diane turns away from the window, trying to ignore the music.

EXT. DIANE’S HOUSE — DAY

Lloyd is still there, raising the box slightly at times, getting 
uncomfortable, but still stays there. The camera slowly zooms 
into his face.

Here is the movie scene:

One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script To Screen, a weekly series on GITS where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.