Always wanted to teach a class on Bond Girls… You’ll call BS, but it wouldn’t be for the procession of gorgeous gorgeousity. Believe it or not, I’d love to study the progression of the archetype. The degeneration of the cliche. Sure, plots change… but the Bond girl remains. Name me a single Bond film […]
Yeah yeah, I know the internet is full of writer-movie lists. But this is Peditto’s writer movie list, which means I’m not going to hit the classics. Shall we knock those off now? BARTON FINK ADAPTATION THE SHINING MISERY SUNSET BOULEVARD The best writer movies do something by alchemy that’s nearly impossible. They visualize a […]
Summer for teachers are one of the few perks. Sure, we don’t make a penny between May and September. Aside from that little inconvenience, the days of summer are our own. It’s nice not to read ten screenplays a day, to recharge, which I’m doing by able-bodied best to do. Meanwhile, I want to […]
Quite a while back I wrote a post about subtext. I want to revisit the subject today and look at the script from Far From Heaven. Hopefully we can exorcise your expositional demons, Good Reader. While voice is critical, no less important is subtext. The goal is to not spell everything out. Say it without saying […]
Who won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay at the first Oscars? Ben Hecht. 1929. The movie was Underworld. Considered one of the earliest, if not the earliest gangster movie ever made, you’d think that would be enough of an achievement for a lifetime. But this is Ben Hecht, and he was just warming up. […]
