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As a writer, having an overabundance of ideas may not strike you as the worst position to find yourself in, but as anyone who’s ever given it a cursory thought in time realizes, quality films are clockwork precise when it
The films of Mike Mills (including Beginnings and 20th Century Women) are marked by a tenderness and sensitivity that produce a rare effect: His characters are recognised as full human beings, each trying to make their way through life to
After Parasite’s surprise screenplay win in 2020, and appearances by foreign films in both Screenplay categories at the 94th Academy Awards, hopes were high that the excellent work by writing-teams Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe and Eskil Vogt & Joachim
When writing a character, we strive that they be verisimilitudinous. Not realistic per se, but that their behaviour, persona, their character strike the audience as authentic for the story at hand. This can get tricky when writing the sorts of
The truth of the screenplay is that it cannot be a piece of art in and of itself. A screenplay is written to be mangled, chewed up and regurgitated into a final film (preferably one that lives up to or
At California State University, Eric Edson, one of the most informative screenwriting professors presents extensive lectures concerning what he defines as the 14 character types, with a helpful PowerPoint to boot. When we speak of character types here, these are
Casablanca is considered, by and large, to be the greatest screenplay ever written. On a superficial level it’s endless quotability may have something to do with the writing community’s preference, but it’s more likely touted as the screenplay because it
Scripts can take a few days or a decade to write. As you’ll hear again and again… “writing is rewriting”. Whether you’re flying solo or co-writing a screenplay, the beast can become unruly, get away from us and sometimes get
The recent Academy Award Nominations held a number of surprises, and though the Best Adapted Screenplay category is particularly stacked this year, the lack of love for West Side Story was truly unexpected. Why Academy voters neglected to honour Pulitzer
Accented Cinema is a wonderful YouTube channel, which covers mostly foreign films. The host provides insightful analysis about filmmaking, but what makes the channel somewhat unique is its perspective: that of a Chinese Canadian movie-buff, most popular for his insightful