Screenwriting From Iowa

I just learned through Mystery Man on Film that there is a downloadable transcript of a story conference for Raiders of the Lost Ark. It includes George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Larry Kasden walking through their ideas back in 1978 for the blockbuster film that would eventually be released in 1981. 
There’s great stuff there and [...]

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So after Kevin Smith was inspired by seeing Slacker, he wrote the script Clerks. After he wrote a the script he basically shot the film with a few friends who he could not afford to pay and covered the hard cost of production using basically personal credit cards.
In Smith’s mind if he was going to [...]

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Orson Welles? Sunset Boulevard? Horton Foote? None of those posts have done what quoting Kevin Smith has done–basically double my numbers of views. Maybe there are other factors at play but I’m staying on the Kevin Smith gravy train for a couple more days. I should point the way to Stephen Lowenstein’s book My First [...]

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Boy, I should have mentioned Kevin Smith before yesterday as that post brought the second highest number of views since I started this blog. I’m glad I didn’t say anything negative about 21-year olds living in the basement of their parent’s homes surrounded by comic books and possessing a burning desire to make a film.
Which [...]

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Boy, I should have mentioned Kevin Smith before yesterday as that post brought the second highest number of views since I started this blog. I’m glad I didn’t say anything negative about 21-year olds living in the basement of their parent’s homes surrounded by comic books and possessing a burning desire to make a film.
Which [...]

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Yes, I am going from seven days in a row expounding about the virtues of Sunset Boulevard to quoting writer/director Kevin Smith. While he’s no stranger to controversy, raunchiness, and profanity, you have to at least give the guy credit for launching a career by making Clerks for $26,000. All filmed and edited in a New [...]

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Yes, I am going from seven days in a row expounding about the virtue of Sunset Boulevard to quoting writer/director Kevin Smith. While he’s no stranger to controversy, raunchiness, and profanity, you have to at least give the guy credit for launching a career by making Clerks for $26,000. in a convenience store in New Jersey [...]

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 “Somebody came up to Arthur Miller after an opening and said ‘That was a nice play, but couldn’t you call it Life of a Salesman?’ But a play is not nice things happening to nice people. A play is about terrible things happening to people who are as nice or not nice as we [...]

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She stood there bright as the sun on that california coast
He was a midwestern boy on his own
She looked at him with those soft eyes,
So innocent and blue
He knew right then he was too far from home he was too far from home
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“The Wilder message is don’t bore - don’t bore people.”
                                                    Billy Wilder
 
By the time Billy Wilder directed Sunset Boulevard he had already worked on over 40 feature films. He had already [...]

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