Ceilin’ fan it stirs the air Cigar smoke does swirl The fragrance on the pillowcase And he thinks about the girl Havana Daydreamin’/Jimmy Buffett The closest I’ve ever gotten to Cuba is flying over the island coming back from a production in Jamaica. And I’ve stood on the southern most point of Continental United States […]
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Archive for December, 2015Occasionally I’m ask where the ideas for my posts come from and the simple answer is everywhere. But in the case of today’s post the answer is The Moment with Brian Koppelman podcast. But even that’s a deceptively simple answer. Sometimes I’ll listen to an entire podcast or read and entire book and walk away […] “I believe Hoop Dreams is the great American documentary.” Roger Ebert “I’m 2,500 miles away from Hollywood and consider myself literally and figuratively halfway between Hollywood and Europe in terms of my cinema sensibility. And being a Canadian, being outside the mainstream of America – as Marshall McLuhan used to say – allows you to have perceptions that you could not have otherwise. Like they say: […] Harry got up Dressed all in black Went down to the station And he never came back New York Minute by Don Henley A great bookend to making sure you have conflict in every scene you write is the whole concept of change. The average scene is 1-3 pages long and in that short time—in every […]
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Hawkeyes, Hawkeye & Hurricane Mark RichtPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“It’s like building a stone wall without mortar. You place the words one at a time, fit them, take them apart and refit them until they’re balanced and solid.” M*A*S*H co-writer W.C. Heinz on the creative process Since the title of this blog is Screenwriting from Iowa, I should at least give a shout-out today to […] “I have several wonderful memories of [working with actor] Phillipe Noiret. Once I was preparing a shot, I had set a long dolly on a long down hill road. Now, in order to put the dolly at the same level, the grips even had to make a building – quite a complicated thing. When we finally […]
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How to Be Epic on a Limited BudgetPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If a film is over two hours it’s an epic. [laughs] If you verge on two and a half, you are certainly an epic.” Paul Thomas Anderson “What was nice about [The Treasure of the Sierra Madre] was that it’s kind of a play wrapped up in the clothes of an adventure film. It’s essentially […] “One of the best pieces of advice I took in pre-production was given to me by a director whom I adore, who advised that no matter what, when hiring your crew, do your best to ignore resumes and pedigree, and hire people based upon their attitudes, not just their past accomplishments. In short, ‘go with […]
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Discovered Blogging & TweetingPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaScreenwriter Diablo Cody said after she was more or less discovered by Mason Novak via her blog she wrote when she lived in Minneapolis, “Just put your stuff out there and see what happens.” Here are two success stories from the book Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks (via Stephanie Palmer’s Good […] |
