Update: September — Classic 40s Movie Month
Update: Great response per usual from the GITS community. 15 people have already volunteered. Looks like we can go for a full month of posts. Let’s see if we can cover 15 more classic 40s movies!
Every several months since 2013, we’ve had a Classic Movie Month in which I invite GITS readers to volunteer writing up an overview of one of their favorite movies. We’ve moved through this process decade by decade, the idea being to create an online resource for writers to have at their disposal when studying movies and movie history. Thus far we’ve covered these decades:
Let’s make September 40s Movies Month.
I’m looking for 30 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in September, each entry featuring a 40s movie you think screenwriters should know about and hopefully at some point watch.
Here is a template you can use for your guest post:
Movie Title
Year
Writers (screenwriters and any authors whose books were used as the basis for adaptation)
Lead Actors (Just the main ones)
Director
IMDb Plot Summary (You can find that directly under the Your Rating box. If you don’t feel the summary does the story justice, feel free to write up a logline of your own.)
Why I Think This Is A Classic 40s Movie (Feel free to write as much as you’d like up to a half-page or so.)
My Favorite Moment In The Movie
My Favorite Dialogue In the Movie (IMDB has a Quotes section for almost every movie, so you can find key dialogue in your movie’s site.)
Key Things You Should Look For When Watching This Movie
Please use this exact template to help me in the editing process.
If you need to look at some examples of previous posts, go here, here, here, or here and click on any link.
If you can find a YouTube clip from the film or its trailer, please include that URL.
When you are done with your guest post, you may simply copy and paste the content into an email to me or create a Word document and attach it to an email.
I will run the posts in the order I receive them.
If you are interested in doing a guest post, please indicate in Comments or send me an email with the movie you would like to cover.
For inspiration, here are some images from classic 40s movies:
Here’s your chance to feature a personal favorite from the decade of the 40s. And for every contributor, I will send a special gust of creative juju your way.
Click REPLY and see you in comments!
UPDATE: And as usual, the GITS community responds! The first group of volunteers:
Act of Violence — Eric Rodriguez
Arsenic and Old Lace — Katha
Bicycle Thieves — Megaen Kelly
Casablanca — Paul Graunke
Double Indemnity — Susan Winchell
Foreign Correspondent — Doc Kane
His Girl Friday — John Henderson
It’s a Wonderful Life — David Laudenslager
Key Largo — Will King
Laura — Melinda Mahaffey Icden
Mrs. Miniver — Traci Nell Peterson
Notorious — Christine Henton
Rope — Lance Morgan
The Bank Dick — Bob Saenz
The Best Years of Their Lives — Shaun Parker
The Big Sleep — Ipsita Barik
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Annie Wood
The Long Voyage Home — Vincent Martini
The Lost Weekend — Liz Warner
The Maltese Falcon — Roy Gordon
The Ox-Bow Incident — Clay Mitchell
The Philadelphia Story — Kristen Demaline
The Third Man — Harry Cooke
Thanks to everyone who steps up for this ongoing project!
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