There are two kinds of stories. Kind one is REASSURANCE. The world we live in will reward us with happiness if we respect its rules. Kind two is DISSONANCE. All rules exist to protect a privileged few, and resistance is annihilation. Most stories are of REASSURANCE, because they comfort. Stories of DISSONANCE insist that comfort…
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vividseries: Story is almost worked out, thanks to Olivia and my fourth hour, who has to sit there and listen to me work through plot points. A teacher and good friend of mine is also recruited to be the villain. Ha. Hopefully my grade will still be okay. I’ve got a guy named Brandon who…
Read moreDoes anyone really think Amelia Warner won’t “let” Jamie Dornan do a sequel? And good Sam T-J is out, too. Forget that the source material is just plain bad writing, the takeaway from all this wrongness is that you can’t make a decent script out of cardboard characters who don’t do anything interesting.
Read moreHey there, it’s alexontv! Just wondering if you were going to the NYWIFT Writers Group General Meeting on March 5th at 6:30? If yes then I’ll see you there :)
Yes! See you there.
Read moreA pretty good rule for filmmaking is that if the biggest threat in your movie is the runtime, then the drama isn’t really working J.F. Sargent
Read morea-bittersweet-life: In my films there are certain situations which are repetitive. I’m interested in characters under moral or ethical pressure—during a crisis period or time of stress. A person will either hold up or be destroyed by the pressure. This is a common link in my films. Andrei Tarkovsky (via nobodycangiveyoufreedom)
Read moreBirdman & The Imitation Game: do you agree?
lifeascaty: So, Birdman and The Imitation Game are our screenplay winners this year. Do you guys think they’re the best scripts out there? For those of you who haven’t yet had a chance to read this year’s winning scripts, here they are again: Birdman – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo…
Read morefreelance-anthem: ok ok so I made a production blog because as 17272dorsetave said, it’ll be great for keeping a record of my progress. y’all can follow me if you’d like orrrr just offer me advice for making a webseries during the busiest season of my last semester of high school idk
Read moreAll of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won’t watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society if we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half. Geena Davis Quote taken from Miss Representation, a terrific…
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