writer-of-whatever: I got good reactions for my TV Pilot! People actually laughed! I’m so happy!
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with apologies to Ads Libitum, whose beautiful COPYRIGHTED art this is. Kanye?!? That is my ROSIE!!!
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Notes from a Screenreader: Commuter Blues nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. You drove 20 miles home in heavy traffic and don’t remember any of it. That’s the dissociation you use to deal with the sameness of your commute. It also happens when you read your script. Your brain fills in what’s supposed to…
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mysteryagent: Readers, too. Are you Peter Jackson? Calm down.
Read moreHOW TO BECHDEL FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Ask any producer who has Scarlett Johansson or Viola Davis’s agent on the phone whether that cop character could be a woman. That is how binary we are. In dollar signs. It is flashy news that Bechdel-passing scripts did better with paying audiences than Bechdel-failers last year. So now that it’s ridiculously simple and can…
Read moreBECHDEL TEST PREDICTION: 2014 COMPETITION SEASON
Every script has two female characters talking about tampons.
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This is the wave function of a Gaussian state moving at a constant momentum. Coincidentally… It’s also a screenplay moving at a constant momentum.
Read morewriterlyn: Not gonna lie, I lurk on John August’s blog a lot more than is probably healthy. Man is a genius. John August’s experience of walking through a crowd of screenwriters is: Everyone turns to the person next to them and very loudly whispers “John August is right THERE .”
Read moreHow does the Bechdel Test do at the Box Office? | VITAMIN W
How does the Bechdel Test do at the Box Office? | VITAMIN W How those top 50 movies of 2013 broke down into passing the Bechdel test and making $1.56B more than the ones that failed. You will notice that they don’t all stand out as incredible, groundbreaking feminist films. Fast and Furious 6 passes….
Read moreThis is the kind of hypothesis that really crystallizes your story for the reader. Is it true? False? It’s the protag’s job to find out, the final test is to prove it.
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