THE PILE OF SCRIPTS YOURS IS SITTING IN
This is why finding a way to stand out is incredibly important.
Read moreNotes From a Screenreader: The Likability Trap
Notes From a Screenreader: The Likability Trap nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Protagonists need a bigger than life personality. Most spec scripts have protagonists without one. The average protagonist is unobjectionable. They color inside the lines and find a way to get what they want without breaking any rules. That is the…
Read moreThe hardest thing for me to do is finding the story. It’s much harder than financing, writing the script, making the film, editing it, whatever … Stanley Kubrick (via jamesgrantbrown)
Read moreCOINCIDENCES SOLVING PROBLEMS
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I’D WATCH IT
americachavez: a movie where a grizzled ex-marine is brutally murdered by a gang and his pregnant wife and young daughter go on a revenge spree to avenge his death
Read moreHOW DOES THEME WORK?
Theme happens when your script makes a convincing argument that its protagonist is better off fixing his flaw.
Read moreDON’T WATCH THE DAMN MOVIE FOR ME
Look at your script. Are you telling me what’s going to happen next? Stop it.
Read moreA FRESH VOICE
If you boil down what makes a script readable, you get one adjective: fresh. It is impossible to overstate that most scripts are like most other scripts, because most writers write what they’ve already seen in exactly the way that they’ve seen it. Stretch yourself as a writer. Be personal. There is an undiscovered country…
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