“When I wrote the screenplay for A Few Good Men, not only had I never written a screenplay before, I had never read a screenplay before. I didn’t know much about movies at all. I had been a student of plays…so I read as many screenplays as I could. I started to pay attention to [...]
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Archive for December, 2011There just a few more days left on my posts on screenwriting and emotions and I have read that of all the emotions you can hit in a movie that you could generally boil them all down to hope and fear. So I googled “hope and fear in screenwriting” and I came up with a [...] “Big is one of those rare films that will tickle the funny bone and touch the heart.” Movie critic Peter Travers (then with People magazine) “(As a screenwriter) I’m in that emotional place where there is room for idealism. In Big (1988) and Dave (1993) there is a similar question being asked: Is innocence redemptive? And I [...]
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Making Emotional ConnectionsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaHere’s are three chunks of info regarding emotion from the book The Art of Plotting by Linda Cowgill: “Great writers rake their heroes over the coals because this is how stories develop emotion, and emotion is how stories connect with their audience.” Linda Cowgill “Since Syd Field’s Screenplay hit the racks twenty-five years ago, the [...] Today is the 70th anniversary of one of the most tragic days in American History, the bombing of Pearl Harbour in Hawaii killing roughly 2,400 people—mostly those in the United States military. Less than a month later five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa enlisted in the U.S. Navy requesting to be on the same ship. They [...]
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2011
Emotional Evolution/Devolution (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaMorph Archetypes: “The audience watches an onscreen character—generally but not always the main character—go through an Outer Game adventure in order to deal with some psychological/emotional issues within themselves. They change—Morph—as we watch.” Sandy Frank In Sandy Frank’s book The Inner Game of Screenwriting, he writes that the three most common Morph Archetypes are Evolution, [...]
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2011
Emotional Evolution/Devolution (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“A relentless focus on the Inner Game is the key to writing a successful screenplay.” Sandy Frank The Inner Game of Screenwriting Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall… Traditional Nursey Rhyme Tiger Woods won a golf tournament yesterday. Once upon a time, that wasn’t a big deal. But considering [...] “Great writers show how a character is angry by writing specific actions that suggest this action. The should never wrote, “She is angry.” Instead, the would write, “She throws a pot through a window.” Karl Iglesias Writing for Emotional Impact Here is a full half page scene from the Mark Boal screenplay, The Hurt Locker. This scene [...] “You’ll find in times of great emotions in films, the characters almost always speak less works, not more. I count silence as a form of dialogue.”David Freeman
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“Emotional Catharsis”—Diablo CodyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIn this long journey of exploring emotions in screenwriting and filmmaking I’ve quoted writers, directors, cinematographers, and editors on the important role that emotions has on characters, on the audience, and on the script readers who first first your script. But I don’t think I’ve touched on the role of emotions on the writer personally. [...] |
