Screenwriting From Iowa

There will be funeral service today in Hawaii for screenwriter & novelist Jack Lewis who died on May 24, 2009.  In one of those odd coincidences that sometimes happens, May 24 happens to be when I began writing the post called Screenwriting Quote of the Day# 84 (Lt. Colonel Jack Lewis) that posted on May 25 [...]

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When the Orlando Magic beat the Los Angeles Lakers last night it was a huge win for the franchise. It was their first NBA Championship win in their 20 year history.
It takes a little time sometimes? No, it usually takes a lot of time to accomplish the big things we want to do in life.
Take writer [...]

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“The filmed drama (as any drama) is a succession of scenes. Each scene must end so that the hero is thwarted in pursuit of his goal—so that he, as discussed elsewhere, is focused to go on to the next scene to get what he wants.
If he is forced, the audience, watching his progress, wonders with [...]

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“You can’t handle the truth!”
                       Jack Nicholson’s character in A Few Good Men 
                       Voted as #29 in AFI’s 100 Movie Quotes in 100 Years. 
 
The truth is at this place in time the Los Angels Lakers [...]

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“You can’t handle the truth!”
                       Jack Nicholson’s character in A Few Good Men 
                       Voted as #29 in AFI’s 100 Movie Quotes in 100 Years. 
 
The truth is at this place in time the Los Angels Lakers [...]

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“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
                                  Clint Eastwood (as Harry Callahan in Magnum Force)
 
John Grisham didn’t get to see his dream come true. His childhood dream was to play professional baseball and he made it all the way to [...]

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Kevin Williamson failed. But at least he failed to the tune of $103 million at the box office when his script Scream became his first screenwriting credit in 1996. And that launched a career for the New Bern, North Carolina native who studied film and theater at East Carolina University. A career that includes being [...]

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“I like strong narrative drive, even though some of my very favorite films are more internal and meandering, like The 400 Blows, Terms of Endearment, 8 1/2,  Wild Strawberries, or Lost in Translation. One of the greatest filmmakers to never win an Academy Award, Alfred Hitchcock, felt that making a movie was ,  ‘like telling [...]

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It is a small world after all when tonight begins the first ever Disneyland verses Disney World NBA championship when the L.A. Lakers face the Orlando Magic. 
And while this is the first championship showdown between these two teams they made their big screen debut in 1991 in the Lawrence Kasden film Grand Canyon. The film [...]

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Walker Percy (1916-1990) was as much a philosopher as he was a novelist and essay writer. If you’re looking for southern writer who was influenced by Soren Kierkegaard (and who isn’t?) then Percy is your man. Perhaps best known for his novel The Moviegoer I greatly enjoy and am challenged by his non-fiction work The Message [...]

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