“We didn’t intend to have sequels. The first [movie] is a story in and of itself, a sort of capital ‘r’ romance in The Prisoner of Zenda* sense that ends in an idealized love between Elizabeth and Will.” Screenwriter Ted Elliot on the first Pirates of Caribbean movie Having grown up in Orlando and spending [...]
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Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” CategoryQuiz time. This is a two-part question. Quick—name a movie that is a few years old that is about a teenage girl who becomes pregnant? Need a hint? One of the key characters name in the film is Juno. Anyone? If you guessed the 2007 film Juno starring Ellen Page you got the first part of [...]
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2011
 
Movie Cloning (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“A hero who has no faults probably doesn’t have much of a personality.” Dale Launer Therese Walsh Interview Before screenwriter Dale Launer hit it big with his first produced screenplay Ruthless People (1986) he wrote “about 1o screenplays of dubious quality” while paying the bills at a variety of jobs that included selling stereos, refinishing furniture, [...] It looks like 2011 is going to be the year of the clones. Not in terms of movies in the theaters (because that’s always the case), but in terms of my exploring the topic from a screenwriting perspective. “You don’t get to be a Hollywood hitmeister like (Michael) Bay — 200 Zillion Tickets Sold! — without [...] “I have read from cover to cover, books like Leonard Maltin Movie Guide, which contains thousands of plot, character, and movie ideas. I encourage my brain to try to mix these themes together in the hope that my mind will meld a new form. These process id called ‘bi-association.’ the joining together of two forms [...] “The aesthetics of film are 80 percent visual, 20 percent auditory…The best advice for writing film dialogue is don’t. Never write a line of dialogue when you can create a visual expression.” Robert McKee Story “The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking [...] 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, [...] “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 [...] “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 [...]
Jan
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2011
Movie Cloning (Blake Snyder)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Listen to Spielberg or Scorsese talk about movies. They know and can quote from hundreds. And I don’t mean quote as in ‘recite lines from.’ I mean quote as in ‘explain how each movie works.’ Movies are intricately made emotion machines. They are Swiss watches of precise gears and spinning wheels that make them tick. [...] |
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