“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”― Pat ConroyThe Prince of Tides When I finished watching The Peanut Butter Falcon over the weekend it reminded me of seeing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off the Friday it hit theaters back in 1986. In that I greatly enjoyed both and while the titles […]
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Archive for November, 2020Here’s a photo I took yesterday of a rainbow that emerged for a few fleeting minutes. The pixels on the iPhone didn’t quite hold up so I ran it through the Prima app (Thota Vaikuntam) to give it a little texture and magic. P.S. Some time in the next few weeks I’ll hit my 100th […]
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Tarantino: Remove the Cake Frosting and ‘It’ is a Ripoff of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“It is basically Stephen King saw A Nightmare on Elm Street [1984] and did his ripoff of it. The [1988] book It is Stephen King’s ripoff of Nightmare on Elm Street. He just replaces Freddy Krueger with Pennywise. It’s just exactly like he sees Nightmare on Elm Street—Oh wow, that’s goes that’s a really neat […]
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The Most Unlikely Movie to Influence Tarantino in His Early Youth (?)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“This is one of the best of all the Abbott and Costello features.”—Marjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleAn October 2002 review of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) “To some degree or another, I even think Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein affected me as an artist—i.e. the fact that at five I was able to make genre distinctions. […]
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Tarantino on Thinking of the Reader Before the Audience (Tip #108)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It’s like they’re afraid to write the damn thing. And I’m a writer. That’s what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I’m writing the script, I’m not thinking […] I’m not saying that signs in movies are my number one pet peeve, but it’s where I’ll start this new category. This is something that I started noticing decades ago. I hate it when signs look movies. You know, the ones that set designers/production designers create to match the script. My problem is they often […] “When you’re working well all of your instinctive powers are in operation, and you don’t know why you do the things you do.”—Photographer Dorothea LangeGrab a Hunk of Lightning documentary I’m six chapters into recording the audio version of my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles and looking at it with fresh eyes there are a […]
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Aaron Sorkin on Launching a Screenwriting Career* (*Results May Vary)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“My steadiest survival job was working as a bartender in Broadway theaters. I wrote most of A Few Good Men on cocktail napkins at the Palace Theatre during the first act of La Cage aux Folles.”—Writer Director Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) P.S. Here’s a quote where Sorkin expanded that thought about his survival jobs: […]
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Major Reversals (The 2020 Version)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Reversals are a more compelling form of discoveries or revelations because they turn the story upside down.”Karl IglesiasWriting for Emotional Impact Last week was historic—I did my first podcast interview about my book . (When that interview about my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles is posted I’ll write about it here.) This week was historic, […] Next to finishing my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles, the best use of my time during the Covid pandemic has been taking up kayaking in April. This month I’ll hit my 100th day out on a 440 acre lake. Each trip lasting 60-90 minutes in the early morning or late afternoon—times when any other year […] |
