“If I were given a thousand years to live, I wouldn’t run out of topics in American history.” Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns “In the country of baseball, men rise to glory in their twenties and their early thirties—a garland briefer than a girl’s, or at least briefer than a young woman’s—with an abrupt rise, like […]
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Apr
09
2014
 
‘The Battered Bastards of Baseball’Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“There’s kind of a sports world and a filmmaking world and there’s not too much overlap in there.” Maclain Way Co-director, The Battered Bastards of Baseball “[Baseball is] the greatest game that’s ever been invented, period, full stop.” Filmmaker Ken Burns Orlando Sentinel interview by Alicia DelGallo The Battered Bastards of Baseball documentary debuted to […]
Apr
08
2014
The Battered Bastards of BaseballPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“There’s kind of a sports world and a filmmaking world and there’s not too much overlap in there.” Maclain Way Co-director, The Battered Bastards of Baseball “[Baseball is] the greatest game that’s ever been invented, period, full stop.” Filmmaker Ken Burns Orlando Sentinel interview by Alicia DelGallo The Battered Bastards of Baseball documentary debuted to […]
Apr
07
2014
Burns, Baseball & Character FlawsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“In the United States words are medicine.” Filmmaker Ken Burns “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of American had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small town teams.” French-born Amercian historian Jacques Barzun Tonight I’m going to go hear filmmaker Ken […]
Apr
06
2014
Screenwriting, Baseball & Underdogs (2.0)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaHere’s a baseball theme repost from 2008 that seems fitting for this baseball themed run of posts connected to screenwriting: “I’d wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet… The thrill of the grass.” Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson Yesterday […] “The voicemail [saying I'd won the Nicholl Fellowship] was in between like 15 missed called from debt collectors.” Screenwriter Stephanie Shannon Once upon a time—way back in November 2012 (less than a year and a half ago)—a woman in her twenties decided it was time to write her first feature length script. That script (Queen […] We continue our baseball themed week today by looking at Pete Rose. When Rose was a rookie with the Cincinnati Reds he picked up the nickname Charlie Hustle as a derogatory comment after he’d run to first after he walked, and he’d slide head first into bases. Rose embraced the nickname and there were a […]
Apr
02
2014
The Day the Field of Dreams BurnedPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Its kind of unusual to be creative and also like sports.” Filmmaker & CalArts faculty member James Benning (and long time friend of Richard Linklater) “I often joke when people ask me if I went to film school I say ‘Oh, I went to the Stanley Kurbrick Film School,’ which means you just buy a camera […]
Apr
01
2014
Baseball, Bergman & Bull DurhamPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa ”I wrote it quickly (10 weeks), without an outline, and we pretty much shot the first draft.” Ron Shelton on his Bull Durham script I’m not sure you could put together an outfield (3 players) of screenwriters who once played professional baseball. In fact, the only player that comes to mind of any screenwriter who […] Baseball is in the air as the Major League Baseball kicked off in full force today. As I looked for something movie related to baseball and landed on a trailer from For Love of the Game. Partly because my last post was on Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida where the Detroit Tigers hold their Spring Training—and in For […] |
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