Look how visual jokes work.
Read moreEVERYONE KNOWS IT’S WISH FULFILLMENT
I don’t want to embarrass anyone, but It has to be said. Some scripts reek of “Superhero Me”. Not that the protag has super powers, but they’re quick with a comeback, they don’t make mistakes and improbably attractive people hit on them a lot. If everyone in your script admires how cool the protag is,…
Read more50 Shades of Razzies
First of all, you can’t make a movie out of a romance novel where nothing interesting happens and no one can care about the characters because they make no sense. Second of all, I saw the trailer and my whole body cringed. Buckle in. This is going to be a trainwreck.
Read moreA truly brilliant piece of visual storytelling. Revealing character? Check. Conflict? Check. Complication? Check. Sitting over coffee dishing backstory is not required when you build a scene this way. Everything you need to know, you can see.
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Rethinking Dialogue
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Dialogue is a necessary evil, according to legendary director Fred Zinnemann, and writers of spec scripts should print that out and tack it up over their monitors. It is the polar opposite of telling your story visually. So why do you need it at all? As director Kelly…
Read moreBluestocking Photo Booth 2014
Bluestocking Photo Booth 2014 bluestockingfilmseries: A great time at Bluestocking 2014. Full houses both nights for great short films featuring #complexfemaleprotagonist. Shots from the photo booth at Bluestocking 2014
Read moreaustralian-government: I hate when people ask questions during movies like do you not understand that the movie purposly doesn’t tell you things in order to build suspense
Read morePeople say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we…
Read moreI would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long. Meryl Streep pulling weeds (via cyberqueer) [x] (via belligerently)
Read morepayseur: 4k-cinema: salesonfilm: 100% done Ohhhhh shitttt. x_x
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