Archive for January, 2011
Jan
14
2011
 
Movie Cloning (Aaron Sorkin)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa “What jumped out at me (about the 14 page treatment for Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires) wasn’t Facebook. Facebook wasn’t something I knew a lot about when I started. Frankly, it’s not something I know a whole lot about now. I know more about Facebook in 2003-04 than I do in 2010. But [...]
Jan
14
2011
Movie Cloning (Blake Snyder)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Listen to Spielberg or Scorsese talk about movies. They know and can quote from hundreds. And I don’t mean quote as in ‘recite lines from.’ I mean quote as in ‘explain how each movie works.’ Movies are intricately made emotion machines. They are Swiss watches of precise gears and spinning wheels that make them tick. [...] “Long ago, when wishing still could lead to something, there lived a king….” Grimms’ Fairy Tales, The Frog King “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son….” Matthew 22:1, a parable told by Jesus Half of the time I read Joseph Campbell (The Hero [...] “Stop me if this seems familiar: There’s a new cop comedy coming out that pairs a loose-cannon SNL veteran with a growling, resentful partner in a semi-sendup of the 80’s buddy comedy genre. “ Kyle Buchanan The Other Guys Trailer: Cop Out with Jokes I didn’t see Cop Out last year, but I’ve read that it [...] I didn’t intend to spend several days exploring movie cloning, but it’s turned into quite a rabbit hole of information. On top of the words that I listed in part 1 that explain why some movies remind you of other movies (remake, update, homage, rip-off, mash-up, inspired by, parallels, movie mapping, story patterns, story echo, [...] |
