The screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is another gem of a script that is often hailed as one of if not the best screenplay ever written. The above excerpt is from the shooting script of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, meaning there is more detail than would be found ...
“Well, there was this movie I seen one time about a man riding ’cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck,” Bob Dylan sings on his 1986 track “Brownsville Girl,” a song co-written by Sam Shepard. Then, without warning, he goes on to spoil the plot of this 1950 Henry King ...
If you've ever wondered why Lady Bird's Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) has red hair, blame Pretty In Pink. Greta Gerwig's favourite Molly Ringwald flick, directed by Howard Deutch and written by the prolific poet laureate of '80s teendom John Hughes, pitches Ringwald as Andie, a high...
You then select from two options to define your action, after which point you’re treated to the most concise of written outcomes. If you’re fortunate, it will make you laugh or at least progress your story. Make the wrong choice and your fast-paced exploits of lexical brevity come to ...
No, the reason Citizen Kane is an enduring masterpiece has less to do with its superb technical innovation and more to do with the sensational screenplay written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz (we know, we’ve seen Mank). The story of Kane, the shrewd, ruthless newspaper tycoon, and...
This book is another about selling screenplays.Selling a Screenplayfocuses not on how to write a great screenplay but on what to do after you have written it. It touches on formatting, production, and pitching while also talking about the business side of screenwriting. ...
The screenplay was written by Hirohiko Uesaka based on a storyboard by Kōnosuke Uda, Eisaku Inoue, Ken Ootsuka, Kenji Yokoyama, and Takahiro Imamura. Eisaku Inoue was also responsible for the character designs and acted as animation director. Kohei Tanaka and Yasunori Iwasaki are again credited...
Jonathan Demme’s film won ‘the big five’ prizes at that year’s Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and gave licence to an audience who wouldn’t normally gravitate towards horror movies to delve into the scary underbelly of...
It’s directed by Alan Ball, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for American Beauty and created the TV shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Image credit: Amazon) Year: 2020 Director: Jason Woliner "Very niiiiiice!" If you didn't say that in the voice of...
Examines several books on scriptwriting. Features of the book 'Alternative Scriptwriting: Writing Beyond the Rules,' by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush; Features of the book 'Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting,' by Syd Field; Three major problems with scriptwriting books.HortonAndrewCineaste...