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Getting Down to Business (for 3 Hours)

Screenwriting Advice - 3 Hours of It!

Corey Mandell begins one of the most extensive and approachable interviews ever conducted for the excellent resource on screenwriting that is Film Courage, by asserting that it is easier now than it has ever been to find someone looking to

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Godzilla’s Most Audacious Moment

Godzilla

The Japanese Kaiju genre (giant monsters and the like) is mostly nonsense, but their loose-cannon entertainment and simplicity are precisely what have made them so popular as exports, especially in the West. People love to pull up the 19th film

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Using Setting as Metaphor – In Bruges

Morality In Bruges

Martin McDonagh’s latest acerbic comedy of biting remarks, The Banshees of Inisherin, has given critics, audiences, and screenwriters the opportunity to reflect on his unique, darkly comic, gift of gab, transposed onto his frustrated characters, and best put to use

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Contextual Anthropomorphism in Screenwriting

The Dot and the Line

Characters who don’t have the benefit of the spoken word must be anthropomorphized visually, but how was Chuck Jones capable of anthropomorphizing a straight line. It has no eyes. No body to contort, gesture with or express posture. A line

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Hard vs. Soft Worldbuilding

Hard vs Soft Worldbuilding

The titular castle of Howl’s Moving Castle is an apt metaphor for the lush creativity of Ghibli studios’ output; towering and complex, yet indistinct, morphing all the time so as to leave only an impression in the mind, without the

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Why the Razzies Labelled this Script the Worst of 2021

Diana Worst Screenplay of 2021

The Razzies have a pretty poor track record when it comes to singling out the true ‘worst of the worst’ from a year in film and are more prone to riding a trend than anything else. Last year, the whipping

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Team America: World Police Creators Abide by One Golden Rule

Therefore and But team america world police

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the renegades behind South Park, Team America: World Police and Cannibal! The Musical, tend to have very different needs as writers than most. The South Park schedule involves a great deal of crunch time for

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How Silent Film Scripts Were Written

Silent Scripts

These days there are still a smattering of silent films being made (mostly on the independent film market), and thank goodness for that. An artform all their own, silents have a uniquely cinematic quality every prospective filmmaker should take note

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Neil Gaiman’s Masterclass Takeaway

neil gaiman

Gaiman is a master storyteller, whose works span genre and medium; short stories, novels, audio theatre, comic books, films, graphic novels and television. The Sandman, Gaiman’s greatest work, has revived its cultural standing in the wake of a well-received Netflix

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All Is Lost – One of the Shortest Scripts Ever Sold

All Is Lost

All Is Lost, which chronicles the harrowing fight for survival of a veteran mariner left adrift after his vessel collides with a stray shipping container, rode what is for a Hollywood film, a distinctively simple premise to extraordinary acclaim. The

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