“Long ago, when wishing still could lead to something, there lived a king….” Grimms’ Fairy Tales, The Frog King “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son….” Matthew 22:1, a parable told by Jesus Half of the time I read Joseph Campbell (The Hero [...]
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Author Archive“Stop me if this seems familiar: There’s a new cop comedy coming out that pairs a loose-cannon SNL veteran with a growling, resentful partner in a semi-sendup of the 80’s buddy comedy genre. “ Kyle Buchanan The Other Guys Trailer: Cop Out with Jokes I didn’t see Cop Out last year, but I’ve read that it [...] I didn’t intend to spend several days exploring movie cloning, but it’s turned into quite a rabbit hole of information. On top of the words that I listed in part 1 that explain why some movies remind you of other movies (remake, update, homage, rip-off, mash-up, inspired by, parallels, movie mapping, story patterns, story echo, [...] “When a hero starts his life as an orphan, it is to show he has nothing to lose. He is unattached and unencumbered by family ties and social obligations, so he is usually portrayed as an orphan to indicate that he is not saddled with the normal attachments the rest of us have. This sense of [...]
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Character Flaws 101 (tip #30)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Well. nobody’s perfect.”
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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #118 (William Goldman)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Let me tell you the super story that Cliff Robertson told me a dozen years ago, and I think I’m giving the credit properly. It was a story he had been told by Rosalind Russell. I think he met her during the filming of Picnic. She said, ‘Do you know what makes a good movie?’ [...]
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Writing Quote of the Day #9 (Cheyefsky)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe Craft of the Screenwriter was one of the first books I ever bought on screenwriting. It’s older than some of the readers of this blog. I picked it up when I was in film school in 1982 when screenwriting resources were limited. (The Craft of the Screenwriter is worth having in your library and [...]
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Screenwriting from Huntsville, ALPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“My work, I can do anywhere.”
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Writing Quote of Day #8 (Ben Franklin)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” “Segar grew up in an out-of-the way place but the inspiration for his most successful graphic creations came out of that place.” Thanks to the Google Popeye doodle I saw last night I’ve discovered one more example of a big success coming [...] |
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