Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
Jul
14
2014
 
Postcard #79 (Amazon River—Brazil)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIn honor of 2014 FIFI World Cup Brazil championship game yesterday I decided to dig up a photo I took in Brazil back in ’07. I was part of a team that shot footage in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (where I bought a Pele jersey) and in Manaus. I took the above shot from a […] “I believe in the affirmation of life. If we lose that hope, if we lose the possibility of it, we’ve lost an awful lot.” Writer/Director Paul Mazursky Film Comment 1978 Interview “I never thought, I’m going against the grain, I’m going to inform America about the problem of women, about society, about the bums on […]
Jul
11
2014
Complex Stories/Simple Characters (Tip #96)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The big blockbusters—you have to have a certain amount of spectacle, that’s why they’re blockbusters. Screenwriter Stuart Beattie
Jul
10
2014
Starting a Pirate Franchise (in Oregon)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I think 10 bucks to escape to a different world is worth the 10 bucks. Stuart Beattie “No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?” Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) Though I was a lover of the Walt Disney World ride Pirates of the Caribbean since my childhood, when I originally heard they […]
Jul
09
2014
Rules, Breaking Rule, No RulesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You don’t know what the story is 30 pages in, you don’t know who the main character is going to be, scenes that go on too long and don’t get buttoned, the scene ends but it drags on for three lines more—or starts three lines earlier [than it should], lack of momentum, lack of pace, […]
Jul
08
2014
Writers’ Discipline/Bankers’ HoursPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I need silence. I turn off the phone. I turn off the email, and I just sink into that world and I disappear.” Screenwriter Stuart Beattie (I, Frankenstein) “I have kids so I have to be disciplined. I do [my writing] from 9 to 5:30 everyday, Monday through Friday—keep those bankers’ hours. Otherwise I’d never get […]
Jul
08
2014
Writer’s Discipline/Banker’s HoursPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I need silence. I turn off the phone. I turn off the email, and I just sink into that world and I disappear.” Screenwriter Stuart Beattie “I have kids so I have to be disciplined. I do [my writing] from 9 to 5:30 everyday, Monday through Friday—keep those banker’s hours. Otherwise I’d never get anything […]
Jul
07
2014
Simple Stories/Complex Characters (Tip #95)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’m a big fan of simple stories, complex characters.” Screenwriter Stuart Beattie
Jul
05
2014
Stuart Beattie’s 5 Page OutlinePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The best thing for me was reading other scripts and then writing, writing, writing.” Stuart Beattie on launching his screenwriting career Since 1999 Stuart Beattie has been screenwriting for a living. But before that success he wrote a dozen screenplays “and lots and lots of drafts of that dozen” that didn’t sell. He was working as […]
Jul
04
2014
‘Unbroken’ Louis Zamperini (2.0)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaTwo days ago Louis Zamperini died at the age of 97. July 4—Independence Day here in the United States—seems like a fitting day to repost what I wrote about him in 2011. The extraordinary life of the former World War II prisoner of war is the central figure in the Angelina Jolie directed movie of his life Unbroken that […] |
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