I know in this day and age of cable Tv and the Internet that it’s hard to see something you’ve never seen before, but here’s a photo of The Blue Whale on Route 66 in Catoosa, Oklahoma. And even if you’ve seen it before, it was just restored a couple of weeks ago. So not [...]
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Sep
24
2011
 
Stranger than Fiction—OklahomaPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaJust in case you missed it, here is an article by The Associated Press that was printed in USA Today (September 22,2011): MANGUM, Okla.—The wife of a former Oklahoma prosion warden who disappeared with a convicted murderer only to be found living with him in Texas nearly 11 years later was found guilty Wednesday of [...] “Only two things come from Oklahoma…” Sgt. Emil Foley (Lou Gossett Jr.) An Officer and a Gentleman It’s fitting a day after the football center TV show Friday Night Lights walked away with two Emmys that the Oklahoma Film & Music office announced Friday Night Lights Director Takes on Oklahoma Produced Feature Film. The movie is [...] “Kyle Chandler is the only actor that continually his main notes on scripts has been, ‘Can I say less?’ He’ll call me up about a scene where I’ll have two big speeches, and it’s two and a half pages long and he’ll say to me, ‘You know, here’s what I was thinking, here’s what I [...]
Sep
19
2011
Another “Friday Night Lights” Late VictoryPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaAt the Emmy Awards last night. Friday Night Light Lights had one more last second victory in its playbook. There aren’t many things I don’t like about the Tv program Friday Night Lights, but one of them was its dependence on many last second victories in close football games. Sure, every week during close football games [...] “The most important and the most difficult page any new screenwriter will ever write is page one. The bald truth is that this page is your entrance into the world of professionals in the motion picture and/or television community. In this very first page, any professional reader will get an immediate sense of the level [...] “As far as I’m concerned, in the abstract, there is only one plot and it goes like this—A person, or group or an entity (an animal, or an alien, or whatever) wants something. Perhaps it’s to survive a blizzard, to get married, to dominate the world, or to save a child trapped in a fire, [...] “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. “H.P. Lovecraft Opening lines in Supernatural [...]
Sep
15
2011
Filmmaking Quote #23 (Mike Figgis)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The more we talk about guerrilla fimmaking and individuals, I think the healthier it is, even though that may also produce some monumentally awful egos. But at least it allows for possibility of a single creative voice, which is the source of all creativity. Any period of technological innovation in cinema will create its own [...] Last night I went to hear photographer Joel Meyerowitz talk and show some of the 8,500 photos he took at Ground Zero. The first obstacle he had to overcome was Mayor Giuliani banned photographs from being taking and the NY Police Department were faithful to carry out their orders. Meyerowitz speculated that Giuliani’s reasoning was he didn’t [...] |
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