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Feb
26
2012
 
May the Force Still Be with YouPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Star Wars is one of those films — old films — that was designed for the big screen. It makes a big difference to see it on the big screen with the overwhelming sound, the picture and now 3D. We’ve had two generations be able to see it on the big screen and it was great. [...]
Feb
26
2012
Filmmaking Quote #30 (Martin Scorsese)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’m often asked by younger filmmakers, ‘Why do I need to look at old movies?’ I’ve made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I’ve made in 20 years, the more I realize I [...]
Feb
26
2012
The Heart of “Hugo” (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“No stabbings, no shootings, no gunfire, no one gets whacked—is Martin Scorsese going soft on us?” Lesley Stahl on Scorsese’s film Hugo 60 Minutes “Some of the films I make, the characters may not be the nicest people around.“ Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has a history of violence—Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006). When the former [...]
Feb
14
2012
The Heart of “Hugo” (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Bursting with earned emotion, Hugo is a mechanism that comes to life at the turn of a key in the shape of a heart.” Richard Corliss Time “How can you mend a broken heart? …How can you mend this broken man?” Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb Within the last three days I completed a Hugo [...] Oops, I did it again. This weekend I watched both Hugo & The Artist in the theaters—just like a did last month to start the new year. I love those movies. Apparently others do as well. Yesterday, The Artist picked up seven BAFTA awards including Best Picture and for Michel Hazanavicus’s script, and Hugo picked up four awards and [...] “We are languishing in a period without much direction and no shared body of ideas about what we and our society are all about. Now, as never before, we need people who have stories to tell that make sense and order out of the daily avalanche of sensation, news, events; the function of the artist [...] “The best drama for me is one which shows a man in danger. There is no action when there is no danger. To live or die? What drama is greater?” Howard Hawks* Director— Scarface (1932), Sergent York, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep Interviews with Film Directors Edited by Andrew Sarris *Hawks was [...]
Feb
09
2012
Filmmaking Quote #28 (Howard Hawks)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The best drama for me is one which shows a man in danger. There is no action when there is no danger. To live or die? What drama is greater?” Howard Hawks* Director— Scarface (1932), Sergent York, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep Interviews with Film Directors Edited by Andrew Sarris *Hawks was [...] ”In high school I’d get out of doing papers by asking if I could do videos instead. I was one of those weird kids in high school who figured out that I wanted to make videos for the rest of my life.” Kevin T. Willson Director of Sling Baby USA Today The Sling Baby now has [...] “The average copywriter gets only three commercials a year on air.” David Ogilvy Ogilvy on Advertising I don’t know if the times have changed for copywriters since David Ogilvy wrote those above words in 1983, but I did want to give a few shout-out to the copywriter for the behind the Volkswagon spot The Dog [...] |
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