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
Godzilla’s Most Audacious Moment
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
Using Setting as Metaphor – 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
Contextual Anthropomorphism in Screenwriting
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