“IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.” David Mamet “Storytelling without dialogue. It’s the purest form of cinematic storytelling. It’s the most inclusive approach you can take. It confirmed something I really had a hunch on, is that the audience actually wants to work for their meal. They just don’t want to know that they’re […]
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“Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline, your ending, knowing that everything you’re saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal, and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings. We all love stories. We’re born for them. Stories affirm who we are. We all want affirmations that our lives have meaning. And […]
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“I love for music to be like cinema and there be a beginning, an end, and a climax and all those good things.” John Paul White Back in 2010 I wrote the post Musician Charlie Peacock who happens to be the producer of Billboards No. 1 album this week, the new self-titled album The Civil Wars. The […]
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It’s my job to be cleaning up this mess And that’s enough reason to go for me It’s My Job/Mac McAnally “But I kind of like the ring of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” I’m thinking about naming everything after Lee Daniels.” Danny Strong screenwriter of Lee Daniels’ The Butler Huffington Post article by Christopher Rosen […]
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Enough about all these Indiana Jones posts I’ve been writing, today I’m pulling a quote from Iowa’s Ashton Kutcher. The one that when I last checked was the highest paid TV star. Forbes estimated his May 2011 to May 2012 earnings were $24 million dollars. The actor who not only stars in Two and A […]
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Enough about all these Indiana Jones posts I’ve been writing, today I’ll pulling a quote from Iowa’s Ashton Kutcher. The one that when I last checked was the highest paid TV star. Forbes estimated his May 2011 to May 2012 earnings were $24 million dollars. The actor who not only stars in Two and A […]
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“At some point in the evolution of screenwriting, a buzz phrase was born: the ‘active protagonist.’ This refers to the hero who makes his own way, who drives the story forward instead of letting the story drive him. If you’re looking for a character in cinema history that embodies this persona, look no further than […]
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“Snakes are moving in force up the pillar toward Indy’s dwidling torch. Indy graps the pillar for dear life, grimaces with exertion and pushes against the wall with all he’s got.” Raiders of the Lost Ark Written by Lawrence Kasdan “It’s a hell of a way to make a living.” Stuntman Terry Leonard Raiders of […]
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“The whole language of the underworld and the understanding that the characters have of each other, you feel like you’re being led into a secret world.” Raiders of the Lost Ark Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan On the film Out of the Past (1947) The roots of Raiders of the Lost Ark range from the B-films of the […]
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Today on repost Saturday I’m going back to 2008 when I wrote about numbers. And despite reading various posts debunking three-act structure and any kinds of patterns in screenplays and films I’ll stick by this post for the majority of American films. In fact, in recent years script readers have started their own blogs on […]
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