HOW 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…

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Let’s go to the movies!

misterdelfuego: Movies set in the future: Everybody is white. Movies set in the past: Everybody is white. Movies set on other planets: Everybody is white. Movies set in virtual worlds: Everybody is white. Movies set in mythical worlds: Everybody is white Movies full of mythical creatures: Everybody is white True. Could also read white men….

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon  (via wanduring) FRANCIS BACON said this. In the 16th century. And he was a scientist and a lawyer, too. Bacon was so good Mark Twain was pretty sure he was Shakespeare. Take it right from Francis Bacon. Your exposition is a terrible,…

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Useful Confessions #4

I get lots of half-ideas that seem like whole ideas. I used to sit right down and start writing them. Now I spend that time looking for the other half of the idea.

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BLIND SPOTS

Your screenplay is weak in those places where it intersects with what you don’t really know about yourself. Not that you’re a great tangled mystery, but you take most of your own personality for granted and don’t notice it until someone yells at you about it. Politics and religion and -isms are great examples of…

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6 Rules of Screenplay Research

6 Rules of Screenplay Research writerofscreen: However, if you write stories about something you don’t know from your own perspective and experience, it will feel fake. And that’s the problem I have with a lot of scripts I read. Screenwriters write about gangsters, mobsters, and art dealers, but it’s clear they are just rehashing things…

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just-writer-problems: Requested by canadianontheinside. Joss Whedon says jump to the juicy bits and work the boring stuff in later. I think it’s a good idea.

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