Screenwriting From Iowa

On Tuesday morning in Cedar Falls, Iowa I got tired of trying to scrap the ice off my SUV windows and ended up riding my bike to work on the snow packed roads. (My office is only a few blocks away.) Three days later I was riding a bike on the beach in New Smyrna [...]

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“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.“
                                                                    Maj. Gen. William T. [...]

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 Tender Mercies was filmed in Texas in the Waxahachie area with mainly Texas crews.
                                                               Horton Foote, Texas-born screenwriter
                                                               Tender Mercies, A Trip to Bountiful
I was born and raised in Texas in a family with 10 brothers and sisters. I was a daydreamer and bored at school, so I’d [...]

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Does anybody really know what time it is?
                                                             Robert Lamm/Chicago

Did you know that Three Days of the Condor was based on Six Days of the Condor?
That [...]

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“You don’t just throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a little.”
                                                                Tom Smith (played by Chris Cooper)
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“I work in a business that is run by middle age men who make films for teenage boy fantasies.”
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“It is not easy to cut through a head with a hacksaw.”
                                           Michael Crichton 
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“Three years ago I was living in Vegas as the night manager of the Mirage Hotel tram line.”
                                                            Anthony Zuiker
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Obama Speaking in Waterloo, Iowa 2007

 
There is some speculation about what President-elect Obama’s howdy factor will be. They don’t call it that, but that’s what it’s known as in some screenwriting circles. (I’m not sure who I learned this from, but when I remember I’ll give them credit.)
The howdy factor (or howdy trait) is the [...]

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“From Iowa to Pennsylvania, the presidential campaign has provided its share of made-for-Hollywood moments.”
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