Writing Question: How has learning the craft of screenwriting affected the way you watch movies?
Structure, subplots, character, dialogue, pace, transitions, scenes, all of those elements involved in writing a screenplay, once you learn them, it just has to impact how you look at movies. So…
How do you look at movies differently than you did before you knew about screenwriting?
Do you have different viewing habits now?
Do you enjoy watching movies more or less than you used to?
Can you shut off your ‘screenwriting mind’ when you watch a movie or is it always on?
In my experience, learning the craft was like when Toto pulled back the curtain revealing the secrets behind the ‘great and powerful Oz’:
I saw the secrets of the story-crafting process and those mysteries were revealed!
Leaving, of course, the Biggest Mystery Of Them All: How to write a Great Script!
I digress.
This question came up recently in a discuss with some writers, so I thought it would be a good topic for discussion. So how as learning the craft of screenwriting impacted the way you watch movies?
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