Did you know that perfection has deep roots in Tangipahoa Parish? You know, down in Southern Louisiana. In the communities of Tickfaw, Hammond, Natalbany is where Baylor girls basketball coach, Kim Mulkey, was raised. Last night as she led her Baylor Bears to a National Championship and they did something that no team in the history [...]
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Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” CategoryBehind those Mad Men is a pack of woman. In yesterday’s post, I mentioned how Maria Jacquemetton was one of the writer/producers on the Emmy-winning TV series Mad Men. I don’t know what the ratio is this season for Mad Men, but in a 2009 Wall St, Journal article by Amy Chozick she points out that, “Seven [...] “Write script after script and never give up.” Maria Jacquemetton Two of the writer/producers on Mad Men is the husband-and-wife team Andre and Maria Jacquemetton. They’ve both won three Primetime Emmy Awards for their work on Mad Men. I found a Q&A of them and thought you’d find it interesting how they got started in [...] My father, Charles W. Smith, was born on April Fools’ Day 1931. He would have been 81 today, but after a career in advertising he didn’t make it to age 65. Last week, I blazed through watching the first season of the Emmy-winning Mad Men—a mere five years after its TV debut. It didn’t take long [...] “You never know what’s going to be great and lasting. Everyone talks about being a writer, but sitting down and actually doing it is a much harder proposition. It’s like telling a filmmaker to get your hands on whatever you can. Don’t be a snob and say, you know, put yourself in debt for $20,000 [...] “When I write a script, I am telling a story that comes from my heart.” Matthew Weiner, 9-time Emmy winning writer/producer (The Sopranos, Mad Men) “He had a home, The love of a girl, But men get lost sometimes, As years unfurl” New York Minute Lyrics by Don Henley, Danny Korthchmar, Jai L. Winding I’m [...]
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Screenwriting Quote #165 (Paul Thomas Anderson)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn’t truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess [...]
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Filmmaker Edd Blott (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaScott W. Smith: What’s A Tale of Delight about? Edd Blott: A Tale of Delight follows Michael, an illustrator who’s living with post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing his wife tragically killed. It takes place during the holiday season a year later and explores how he is coping with grief while in the middle of what’s considered [...]
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Filmmaker Edd Blott (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOne of the enjoyable things about writing this blog is being able to look at films and filmmakers of the past who have achieved great success. Of course, the great hope is that it will help the filmmakers of the future—or even the present. This week I’ll be posting two interviews I did with first [...] I did see The Hunger Games today and not having read the books the movie came across as a mix of Survivor, Shakespeare, and a soap opera—with a dash of LOST, American Idol, and The Adventures of Robin Hood. And knowing that it was a trilogy did make it a little predicatable. But it was fun to watch an interesting cast [...] |
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