“Sometimes the truth is shocking.” Tennessee Williams “I did four plays with [Neil Simon]: Barefoot and Plaza Suite and The Prisoner of Second Avenue and The Odd Couple. There were real discoveries. Sometimes we didn’t even know things were funny. Walter Matthau says: ‘You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can’t stand little notes […]
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“It’s the cycle; solution, dissolution just over and over and over. It is growth and decay, and then transformation.” Walter White in “Breaking Bad”
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In Jim Mercurio’s Complete Screenwriting From A to Z to A-List DVD he has a section where he mentions that screenwriters should think like filmmakers, meaning some of the key roles people physically do working on a film—the director, the director of photography (DP), and the editor. Mercurio like many screenwriting instructors says that you […]
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Writer/Director Garry Marshall (Happy Days, Pretty Woman) was born on this day 80 years ago. Back in 2012 I was in Dallas/Ft. Worth on a video shoot and I came across a used bookstore that had a copy of Garry Marshall’s Wake Me When It’s Funny (written with Lori Marshall). I wasn’t sure how well received advice from […]
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“There’s a great scene in Annie Hall when Alvin and Annie—I think they’re at a party and on a balcony—and they have some small talk and every time they small talk a subtitle comes up to say what they’re really saying…this is exactly what subtext is.” Jim Jim Mercurio (On the scene below written by Woody Allen) “There […]
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INT. SEAN’S OFFICE – DAY Sean’s office is comfortable. Books are stacked against the wall. There is a PAINTING on the wall behind Sean. Sean is seated behind a desk. Lambeau sits in a chair in the back of the room, next to Tom. A long beat passes, they wait. From the Good Will Hunting […]
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“Try to find visual ways to tell your story.” Jim Mercurio Dr. Grant: Are you sure the raptor are container? Dr. Sattler: Unless they figure out how to open doors. Jurassic Park, written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp “In Jurassic Park in the kitchen scene where the velociraptor are chasing the kids, there’s no way the […]
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“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.” Czech politician and playwright Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall so it seemed […]
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Have you ever seen a one-armed man punching at nothing but the breeze? If you’ve ever seen a one-armed man then you’ve seen me The Wrestler/ Bruce Springsteen Breaking all of the rules that would bend I began to find myself searchin’ Searchin’ for shelter again and again Against the Wind/ Bob Seger A little […]
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I want to feel, sunlight on my face See that dust cloud disappear without a trace I want to take shelter from the poison rain Where the Streets Have No Name/U2 Not all people seeing shelter in movies (and life) are in the mist of a world war like in my last new posts on […]
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