“We basically pounded out our first draft in six days.” Annie Mumolo, co-writer of Bridesmaids Because I write so much about screenwriters who wrote 6-13 screenplays before they sold a script, it’s always nice to point out the anomalies. (It’s much more encouraging to new writers, right?) Here’s the story of a first screenplay that [...]
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“My token advice (to aspiring filmmakers) is do it—make your own stuff. Whether it’s short films or whatever you can do, my advice is make your own stuff. I’m a real believer in preparation meets opportunity. When this opportunity (to write Bridesmaids) came along I really had been at this a long time…I was really [...]
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Think I can segue from two previous posts about Bridesmaids to one about Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? No problem. In Bridesmaids there is a scene where the lead character’s life is falling a part and her mother tells her to watch the movie Cast Away saying, “It’s like Forrest Gump on a deserted island.” [...]
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you, I came to live out LOUD.” Émile Zola Tagged: Émile Zola
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Today on NPR, Susan Stamberg had this exchange with Alexander Payne, the screenwriter, producer, and director of The Descendants: In the [The Decendants'] powerful final scene, the 10-year-old daughter watches TV on the couch, wrapped in a quilt. Her father enters with two bowls of ice cream. He sits, and pulls the quilt over to [...]
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“No stabbings, no shootings, no gunfire, no one gets whacked—is Martin Scorsese going soft on us?” Lesley Stahl on Scorsese’s film Hugo 60 Minutes “Some of the films I make, the characters may not be the nicest people around.“ Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has a history of violence—Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006). When the former [...]
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“I’m often asked by younger filmmakers, ‘Why do I need to look at old movies?’ I’ve made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I’ve made in 20 years, the more I realize I [...]
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“Star Wars is one of those films — old films — that was designed for the big screen. It makes a big difference to see it on the big screen with the overwhelming sound, the picture and now 3D. We’ve had two generations be able to see it on the big screen and it was great. [...]
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“Bursting with earned emotion, Hugo is a mechanism that comes to life at the turn of a key in the shape of a heart.” Richard Corliss Time “How can you mend a broken heart? …How can you mend this broken man?” Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb Within the last three days I completed a Hugo [...]
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Oops, I did it again. This weekend I watched both Hugo & The Artist in the theaters—just like a did last month to start the new year. I love those movies. Apparently others do as well. Yesterday, The Artist picked up seven BAFTA awards including Best Picture and for Michel Hazanavicus’s script, and Hugo picked up four awards and [...]
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