“I know Eric Dickerson is feeling so good right now.” Running back Adrian Peterson It was almost a cliché, but it turned into a great ironic ending. I’m not talking about a movie, but yesterday’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. The Vikings needed a win in the last regular game [...]
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Archive for December, 2012“He lost. He’s alone. And he’s three million light years from home.” Trailer for E.T., The Extra Terrestrial “In the beginning, E.T. was never going to be the story of a little lost alien. Instead, I had intended to tell the story of the effects of a divorce on a young boy, a purging of all [...] “Although the storyline of Tootsie was simple and straightforward enough, the script history of the film was anything but.” Susan Dworkin Making Toostie “Tootsie” is the kind of Movie with a capital M that they used to make in the 1940s, when they weren’t afraid to mix up absurdity with seriousness, social comment with farce, [...]
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Writing as Exploration (Tip #67)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I do believe in the old saying ‘we write the movie to figure out why we are writing the movie.’ I started out as someone who wanted to write comedy. I never thought about comedy being an intimate, vulnerable act. Latley I have accepted that writing is a form of self-exploration. I am trying to [...]
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“Play-Making”—William ArcherPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWriter/director Alexander Mackendrick (Sweet Smell of Success) said of British drama critic and playwright William Archer, “To speak personally, Archer’s book on dramatic structure [Play-making] is the best text I know on the subject of dramatic construction. Here’s an excerpt from the book first published in 1912: “One thing is certain, and must be emphasised from [...] “With the dawn of redeeming grace Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.” —Silent Night I took the above picture at sunrise today—Christmas morning. This is my ninth Christmas in this house originally built in 1919 in Cedar Falls, Iowa and it will be my last. May even be my last white Christmas for a while. (Kinda following [...]
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BOOM! & The Fat Lady in Kansas CityPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Always and consciously, I try to hook the audience in the first five minutes. I want them right from the start to feel something—BOOM! I want an explosion right at the beginning. I always what that. Gene Wilder So I’m getting in the Christmas spirit this year and thinking about giving away around 100 books [...] “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…” The Shining (A Stephen King story) Iowa is getting blanketed in a snow storm today. About ten inches of show has fallen in the last 12 hours with wind gusts measured over 40 mph. I took the above photo this morning at my house and it [...]
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Screenwriting Quote #175 (Arthur Miller)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa ”You’d be hard pressed to remember dialogue in some of the great pictures that you’ve seen. That’s why pictures are so international. You don’t have to hear the dialogue in an Italian movie or a French movie. We’re watching the film so that the vehicle is not the ear or the word, it’s the eye. [...] “Generally, the shorter the period of time depicted, the more intense the drama. The longer the period of time depicted on a film, the more chance there is that its narrative line will become episodic, making it difficult to keep the film flowing.” Linda Seger Advanced Screenwriting Page 33 The great Milton Glaser once said, [...] |
