So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. I Smile Back takes a look at the multi-generational toll of substance abuse, up close and personal. Laney is a woman at war with her picture perfect suburban marriage. It’s heartbreaking and hyper-realistic and hopeless….
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #10: LEGEND
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Legend takes another look at the brutish Kray brothers, twin thugs, one of them a violent paranoid schitzophrenic, who scaled the heights of gangsterdom in London the the 60s. No new ground is broken in…
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #9: BRIDGE OF SPIES
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Bridge of Spies is a fantastic example of how to do a period drama. It focuses on one charismatic character with a momentous, specific problem that he is perfectly drawn to be unable to walk…
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #8: DANNY COLLINS
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Danny Collins takes a premise that a sell-out millionaire pop star in his 60s can go back and un-sell himself after he receives a letter written to him by John Lennon 40 years ago, which…
Read moreHow They Write A Script: Paddy Chayefsky
How They Write A Script: Paddy Chayefsky filmmakerssn: Noted playwright, screenwriter, and probably the most famous television writer during its so-called golden age of live TV, Paddy Chayefsky is one of the most revered contemporary American writers. Here are some interview excerpts taken from the book “The Craft of the Screenwriter.” ON THE THREE-ACT STRUCTURE “The three-act structure is…
Read moreRemember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise Hay (via mysimplereminders)
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #7: TRUMBO
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Trumbo is perfect. Project Recommendation: Worship
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favourosie: clinicallydepressedpug: Anxiety: *banging pots and pans together* GET UP! HURRY! DO IT! WE’RE IN DANGER! GET IT DONE NOW! Depression: *lethargic* I hear you. I agree, but… I’m so tired, I wouldn’t even be able run away from danger if danger showed up because I didn’t do the thing that I didn’t do because…
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