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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