Good Reader… Hopefully you are already hip to the SCREENPLAYED. This idea of “clips and scripts” isn’t new. Sit down with a favorite movie, pull up the screenplay, and let ‘er roll. You can see –maybe like you’ve never seen before–all sorts of unknown detail about the movie at script level. What was added? What […]
Impossible. Pick a single great scene from this movie? No way. I found the script here. The Writer’s Guild Top 101 Screenplays poll has Dr. Strangelove landing at #12 all time. To put that in perspective, in the history of movies only Annie Hall and Some Like It Hot rate above it for comedies. It’s […]
Billy Wilder said grab the audience by the throat and never let go. That’s why Point Of Entry is so important. That’s why page 1 of your script is so important. Never mind that you might be in the hands of a tired and bored reader who is looking at the clock thinking about beating […]
I tried! I really did…but I can’t pick between them. Two scenes from Magnolia are classics. Let’s look at the clip and script for each: THE INTERVIEW The interview scene for Seduce and Destroy is a great scene for beat analysis. The Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise) character starts out dominating Beat 1– in his tighty-whities, […]
