I have been working with screenwriters at Raindance since 1992 The most common question new writers ask me is: 'Why can't I finish my script?'
If this sounds familiar, pause.
Is this because you lack talent?
or
Have you been taught wrong?
Pause a moment and reflect:
Why 3 Act will Kill Your Writing
Enjoy,
Elliot
Showing posts with label movie scripts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie scripts. Show all posts
I'm inspired
"Pi" to "The Wrestler" He's responsible for some of the decades most startling movies - agree?
Then I read Darren Aronofsky's Scripts.
OMG
Humbling!
And Im off to Brussels for Raindance's Writing Low Budget class Monday/Tuesday
Then I read Darren Aronofsky's Scripts.
OMG
Humbling!
And Im off to Brussels for Raindance's Writing Low Budget class Monday/Tuesday
The Pixar Script Suite
Their crews are huge and their budgets are even bigger, jumping up to almost $200 million a few times and are all animated, a few things most indie filmmakers never deal with. Well the main reason their films are so successful isn’t the size of the crew, or the big name director or the ridiculous budget, it’s the story.
Pixar is able to, time and again, craft compelling stories, which strike us in a very emotional and pure way and take us on a journey most other films don’t even come close to offering. The stories repeatedly appeal to both young and old and never seem to disappoint.
Whether you are working in the same league as Pixar or on an independent level there are many things you can learn by studying Pixar’s craft.
Read a Pixar script!
Coen Brothers Scripts
Take a few minutes to see if you know from which Coen Brother movie script these quotes and scene descriptions came from. Afterward keep the link bookmarked to the Raindance website's Coen Brothers Suite, highlighting all of Ethan and Joel's scripts.
The answers are linked in the description or quote.
1.
The answers are linked in the description or quote.
1.
Character #1
...Ah, you'll lick this picture business,
believe me. You've got a head on you
shoulders. What is it they say? Where
there's a head, there's a hope?
Character #2
Where there's life there's hope.
...Ah, you'll lick this picture business,
believe me. You've got a head on you
shoulders. What is it they say? Where
there's a head, there's a hope?
Character #2
Where there's life there's hope.
2.
Excited, he counts out a bundle of bills and tosses it onto the back seat.
He starts to take the rag away from his chin but the layer pressed against his face sticks, its loose weave bound to his skin by clotted blood.
He pulls very gently and winces as blood starts to flow again.
He carefully tears the rag in half so that only a bit of it remains adhering to his jaw.
3.
4.
EXT. FACING ROOF
We are looking through the telescopic sight of a high-powered rifle. The rifle sweeps up from BLANK'S body across the brightly lit room, and centers BLANK, still staring at the window, in the cross hairs.
Excited, he counts out a bundle of bills and tosses it onto the back seat.
He starts to take the rag away from his chin but the layer pressed against his face sticks, its loose weave bound to his skin by clotted blood.
He pulls very gently and winces as blood starts to flow again.
He carefully tears the rag in half so that only a bit of it remains adhering to his jaw.
3.
CHARACTER #1
It's all a goddamn fake. Like Lenin
said, look for the person who will benefit.
And you will, uh, you know, you'll,
uh, you know what I'm trying to say--
CHARACTER #2
I am the Walrus.
CHARACTER #3
That Fucking bitch!
CHARACTER #1
Yeah.
CHARACTER #2
I am the Walrus.
CHARACTER #3
Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin!
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
It's all a goddamn fake. Like Lenin
said, look for the person who will benefit.
And you will, uh, you know, you'll,
uh, you know what I'm trying to say--
CHARACTER #2
I am the Walrus.
CHARACTER #3
That Fucking bitch!
CHARACTER #1
Yeah.
CHARACTER #2
I am the Walrus.
CHARACTER #3
Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin!
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
4.
EXT. FACING ROOF
We are looking through the telescopic sight of a high-powered rifle. The rifle sweeps up from BLANK'S body across the brightly lit room, and centers BLANK, still staring at the window, in the cross hairs.
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