Screenwriter William C. Martell in his book The Secrets of Action Screenwriting talks about the villain’s plan before he talks about the hero and how he plan’s on stopping the villain. Martell points out that there are two kinds of heroes in films which he calls “Superman Type”(Superman) and “Everyman Type” (Indiana Jones). Martell also [...]
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So I finally picked up a used copy of WIlliam C. Martell’s book “The Secrets of Action Screenwriting” and I’ll spend a pulling quotes for you since it’s out of print.
“The most important element of an action film isn’t the hero, isn’t the sidekick, isn’t the dialogue, and isn’t the plot. The most important element [...]
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I found out a couple days ago that screenwriter and screenwriting instructor Blake Snyder died last Tuesday. I think his books “Save the Cat” and “Save the Cat Goes to the Movies” were two of the most refreshing book on screenwriting in the last ten years. It’s a sad loss because as he really seemed [...]
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“One thing I’ve learned is that if you really concentrate on something, your mind will get more creative.”
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Screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s death on Wednesday was followed on Thursday by writer/director John Hughes dying of a heart attack. Hughes may not have won an Oscar as Shulberg did but he certainly had a longer list of hit movies including;
Home Alone
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The classic Hollywood film On the Waterfront almost never came to be. It’s been said that ever great film has been turned down at least once and the Elia Kazan directed film starring Marlon Brando with a script by Budd Schulberg was no exception.
“Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no [...]
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Budd Schulberg the Oscar winning writer of On the Waterfront died today. And it’s another reminder of what I call the mountain-top experience. For Schulberg On the Waterfront was his top of Everest script. Released in 1954 and starring Marlon Brando the film went on to win a total of eight Oscars and is considered [...]
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
Richard Bach
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So here’s our little 48 hour experimental film we produced a week ago for The 48 Hour Film Project (Des Moines). The genre we had to make a film in was “Ghost Story” and we had to include a character named Greg or Greta Calhoun, a can opener, and the line “I have three words [...]
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(I had hope to get the film I made last weekend uploaded today but had a little technical glitch so maybe I’ll get it up Monday.)
There are a lot of great quotes out there by writers who had nothing to do with screenwriting so I’ve decided to start a new section on quotes about writing [...]
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