February 2012
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December 2011
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Screenwriting Tip #838
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No one ever looks back and wishes they’d sent out an unpolished draft, but there are plenty of writers who made that decision and regret it. Never show the world anything less than your best.
Words of wisdom.
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Screenwriting Tip #701
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Sci-fi screenwriters are always naming their characters/planets/alien races after famous SF authors. Same with fantasy and horror. Please, no more “Lovecraft Institutes” or “Space Station Heinleins” — it’s a little distracting.
Screenwriting Tip #698
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A script that only includes scenes with the protagonist present feels very different from one that cuts between separate groups of characters. Both styles are useful. A focused perspective gives drive, immersion, maybe claustrophobia; a larger scope suggests a bigger world.
Screenwriting Tip #697
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When outlining, you need to know how it ends… but that doesn’t mean you have to know exactly what happens in Act Three. It means you have to know what mental and emotional state you want your protagonist to end up in.
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Watchthedailywhat:
DIAF of the Day: Remember back in February when Tara Reid claimed she was working on a Big Lebowski sequel, only to be zinged a few days later by Ethan Coen with the quip “I’m glad she’s working on it”?
Well, Coen might change his mind once he finds out she was actually working on it.
As one astute FoD commenter notes, “I always wondered why they didn’t cast the original film...
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The Junk Cast
I will be interviewed on the podcast, the Junk Cast, next week. It’s a weekly film podcast where people nerd out about films. Figures I’d be on it. Anyway, if you have any questions you want me to answer, e-mail them to TheJunkCast@gmail.com
Watchthedailywhat:
Music Video of the Day: T.Shirt spits 120 film titles over The Bird and the Bee’s “Polite Dance Song” as he moves through an undisclosed NYC movie theater the New York Angelika in HotMop Films’ single-shot music video for “24 Frames.”
[madcapwanderlust.]
February 2011
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“Too many cooks in the...
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