I’ve never met or talked with Scott W. Smith, the founder/writer of Screenwriting From Iowa, but I’m pretty sure we’ve got a couple things in common. When I took the name of Script Gods Must Die it was initially meant as a fun but angry retort to the legions of gurus making false promises to […]
Time to compare scripts and movies again, this time great speeches–what’s changed, what’s improved, what’s not… APOCALYPSE NOW– KURTZ APPEARS When you read this script you’ll be hard pressed to find anything with the Brando scenes that actually made the movie. Brando’s improvisations are infamous and guess what? They’re almost all better than what was […]
*Put this together a long while ago. Dedicated to Stormy Daniels and bringing our orange-tinted pig President down to the ground. Careful with that axe, Eugene! Poor Little Bill, dealing with discussing minimal vs natural lighting while his wife, Nina Hartley is having sex with another dude in front of those eight guys below in […]
Anyone who has run a blog for 5+ years knows– it wears you down. The “content” spigot runs dry. I mean, seriously, how many different ways are there to discuss format or structure? How long can you do that before it gets stale? While I have no intention of shuttering Script Gods just yet, I […]
We talked about Character Biographies previously here at Script Gods. Today I wanted to give an an example of how to write them using an INSIDE-OUT approach. Remember: People are not who they appear to be. Who the characters appears to be to the world–their 24/7 world, the people in their lives, their economic, sociological […]
