“Visceral emotions are the feelings we most want to experience while watching a movie, and the ones you want the reader to feel while reading your script. They include interest, curiosity, anticipation, tension, surprise, fear, excitement, laughter, etc, the epic films, the special effects, and the physical thrills we pay good money to feel. If [...]
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Screenwriting Quote #158 (William M. Akers)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Your bad guy must always be taking action. He’s always plotting. Planning, stealing, killing, wounding, belittling, or scraping cheese off your pizza. If the bad guy isn’t constantly making (more and more clever) moves, he’s not much of a bad guy.” William M Akers Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 ways to make it great page 33 [...]
Jun
04
2011
Why Shaq Failed—But Put Orlando on the MapPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaShaq failed. It’s that simple. Long before he announced his retirement this week—and even before he’d even won a single NBA championship— Shaquille O’Neal once stated that his goal was to win five championship rings…one for each finger. He ended up with four. There’s nothing wrong with failing—as long as you aim high. And while [...] “I think what I’m trying to say is, ‘How do you preserve yourself in a world in which life doesn’t really mean much anymore?’ The trick, of course, is trying to say it so that it’s a good movie.” Paddy Chayefsky 1976 Interview with Dinah Shore about his movie Network I’ve read screenplays by Paddy [...] “My mother used to say, ‘Not a sparrow falls that God does not know.’” Robert McKee Story Two days ago I mentioned seeing a small bird leave its nest and fly for the first time. It was a small but special moment that I was privileged to witness. This morning, just a few feet from where [...]
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2011
Screenwriting Quote #157 (Michael January)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Hollywood lives and dies on something that seems new and original, but is very much like something that made money before. If you, as a writer, can figure out how to make that formula work, then you can become quite wealthy.” Screenwriter Michael January Quoted in Tales from the Script Related posts: Movie Cloning (Part [...] “I have never known birds of different species to flock together.” Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffies) The Birds (Directed by Alfred Hitchcock) Daphane Du Mauier (story), Evan Hunter (screenplay) Today I saw something that I had never seen before. Last week I mentioned in passing the we had a bird nesting two feet from our back [...] It’s been a windy Memorial Day here in Cedar Falls, Iowa and I couldn’t help but stop and take a picture of the American flags blowing at the local AMVET Post this morning. “Heroes are something we create, something we need. It’s a way for us to understand what’s almost incomprehensible, how people could sacrifice [...]
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2011
The AF100—Running with the Big DogsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaSix days ago I shot an interview and B-roll footage with Nevada Morrison in Waverly, Iowa. Yesterday Morrison had a monster day winning the 400-meter dash at the Division III national track meet in Delaware, Ohio. According to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier she also “placed second in the 200, anchored the 4X400 meter relay to [...]
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2011
Screenwriting Quote #156 (Chandus Jackson)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“One lesson I’ve learned in Hollywood is that right out of the gate a screenplay will be judged solely on its concept or premise…I test the market every time by pitching my premise to a group of trusted friends. If these friends seem confused or even lukewarm, then it’s back to the drawing board.” Screenwriter [...] |
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