Dialogue is a necessary evil. Fred Zinnemann (via thescriptlab)
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Notes from a Screenreader: Penn & Tellering
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Here’s a great magic trick. A magician carries a dollhouse onstage and places it on a table. He says it’s a haunted dollhouse. Every time he takes the cloth away after barely an instant, the haunted dollhouse has produced a fire in the fireplace or a bloody doll massacre…
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Radical tone shift is disorienting. If you find your voice halfway through, dedicate a rewrite to making the first half tonally complementary.
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I suppose you know the famous story of the writer who racked his brains how to show, very shortly, that a middle-aged man and his wife were no longer in love with each other. Finally he licked it. The man and his wife got into an elevator and he kept his hat on. At the…
Read morelindae: Snowpiercer (#53) A positively brilliant film that absolutely lives up to the hype as being one of the smartest, most stunning and original action films I’ve seen in a very long while (and certainly so far in 2014). Bong Joon-Ho is an auteur; a master of his visual style and story and also very…
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