This was originally posted on October 3, 2012 as Writing & Rewriting ‘Pretty Woman’ (Part 2). Who would have thought three years ago Donald Trump would seriously be running for president of the United States? I one interview, as you’ll read in this post, director Garry Marshall said of Richard Gere’s character in Pretty Woman was a “Donald […]
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Archive for October, 2015Note: This post was originally posted in 2012 as Writing & Rewriting ‘Pretty Woman’ (Part 1). Earlier this year, there was a 25th Anniversary celebration for the movie Pretty Woman. But as this post shows, the original script was far from a romantic comedy. Let me also update the post to add in an 2015 Interview J.F. Lawton gives […] Yesterday’s post—George Miller Masterclass in Visual Storytelling—was one of the most viewed and shared posts I’d written all year and a fitting end to a month of posts centered around Austin, Texas—based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. The only other time I’ve done something like that was back in 2012 when I ran a month of posts […]
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George Miller Masterclass in Visual StorytellingPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The perfect movie doesn’t have any dialogue. So you should always be striving to make a silent movie.” David Mamet On Film Directing “One of my notions [in making Mad Max] was that if I make the action sequences as a silent movie, and it reads as a silent movie, then it can only get […] |
