“Only emotion endures.” Ezra Pound A Retrospect “Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News are two James L. Brooks films that I can just watch over and over again…I strive to make movies like those where you’re laughing and you’re crying. That’s what all of it is for; It’s to experience the range of emotions within and hour […]
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Archive for July, 2016
Jul
28
2016
 
Filmmaking Quote #45 (Mamet)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If you listen to the way people tell stories, you hear that they tell them cinematically. They jump from one thing to the next, and the story is moved along by the juxtapositon of images—which is to say, by the cut. “People say, ‘I’m standing on the corner. It’s a foggy day. A bunch of […]
Jul
27
2016
Mission: Rip Off David MametPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaCreative Screenwriting interview with six time Oscar-nominated writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia): Kristina McKenna: Did you consciously train your ear to be sensitive to how people talk? Paul Thomas Anderson: I probably did when I was eighteen and was just starting as a writer. Actually my mission then was to rip off […]
Jul
26
2016
Screenwriting Structure, Snake Oil, & Star WarsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The ‘rules’ of structure ensure that a huge reversal happens every 30 minutes, a big one every 15 minutes or so and some sort of smaller one every single scene.” Rian Johnson I pulled the following excerpt from an article by Rian Johnson that I found in a stack of articles I wanted to included […] “Too many scripts don’t have soul. What does soul mean? In character terms, it means, I want to feel what your characters are feeling. And as a writer you’re obligated to give your audience and that reader that feeling. It better happen on the page, or it’s not going to happen in the film.” Screenwriter […]
Jul
23
2016
Screenwriter Rick Ramage Q&A (Part 3)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaQ&A Part 3: Screenwriter Rick Ramage (Stigmata) was still doing studio feature work while continuing to live with his family in Denver when his manager opened doors for him to create (with Andrew Cosby) the TV show Haunted (which starred Matthew Fox) and the USA show Peacemakers with Larry Carroll. The “meat grinder” writing demands on Haunted required […]
Jul
21
2016
Screenwriter Rick Ramage (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis is part two (of what I think will be four parts) of an interview with screenwriter Rick Ramage (Stigmata). In part one we covered how he was born in Fargo, North Dakota, raised in Denver, Colorado, where in his mid-twenties he was selling tractors when he wrote his first screenplay. That led him to […] “Kindness is free.” Garry Marshall When I learned Hollywood legend Garry Marshall died yesterday, I recalled fondly his career in film, theatre, and TV. The producer, writer, director and actor has a special place on this blog as he’s the only person who I’ve ever blogged about for 31 days in a row. In fact, […]
Jul
19
2016
Screenwriter Rick Ramage Q&A (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaScreenwriter Rick Ramage (Stigmata) has had a career which includes some interesting peaks; he had his first script optioned while he was still a student at AFI, developed projects with Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack, had a number one hit movie the week it opened, has sold many spec scripts—and been based in Denver, Colorado for most of […] Today I’ll round out my recent run of Aaron Sorkin related posts with a little bit of a twist of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The twist being an oh so loose connection I have to Aaron Sorkin that I just discovered. Over the weekend I flipping through an old notebook gathered from my L.A. […] |
