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If you don’t know who Billy Wilder is and you are a film lover, you are a walking contradiction. Anyone who loves movies ought to know and admire a guy like Billy Wilder, may he rest in peace, whose career…
Continue reading For Screenwriters: 10 (Attributed) Pieces of Advice from the Great Billy Wilder
Michael Arndt acquired prestige as a screenwriter with Little Miss Sunshine (2006), a great character-driven comedy that became a success. The future held for Arndt titles like Oblivion (2013), Hunger Games 2 (2013) and The Force Awakens (2015), but this…
Frederic Raphael: There’s a lot of talk. You want a lot of talk? Stanley Kubrick: I can’t say what I want. I want to do Arthur’s story (Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle”), but in New York, now. That’s all I can tell you.…
Continue reading How Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT Was Written
Dmytryk, Edward Filmmaker Edward Dmytryk published a series of books on the film trade when, in the last section of his life, he became a film teacher. We have already reviewed here his book On Film Editing and here his book On Screen Acting. Now it’s…
Continue reading Best Screenwriting Books: Dmytryk’s ON SCREEN WRITING
Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. This book covers many aspects of the screenwriter’s life through the eyes of renowned authors. It’s a work about screenwriting filled with advice and wisdom from established Hollywood writers. And…
Continue reading For Screenwriters: How to Cope with Rejection
Lajos Egri (1888-1967) wrote The Art of Dramatic Writing back in the ’40s. The book is not about writing film but theatre. Still, it’s considered chronologically as the first “how-to“ work ever made about screenwriting -even if the author didn’t know. Many concepts in…
Continue reading Best Screenwriting Books: THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING
Hello everyone!As some of you already know, I do script doctoring / consulting service, with the sole intention of making your scripts even better than they already are!Sessions start from one hour, in person or on Skype, rated at 60 euros…
Protagonist Vs Point of View: Two key decisions that the writer has to take at the beginning of the writing process are, to identify who the Protagonist is and to choose from whose Point of View the story will be…
Let’s talk about screenplay. Let’s talk about race. I was lucky enough to attend a chat with Dylan Marron at the fantastic Independent Filmmaker Project‘s Film Week last September. What Dylan, an actor and a writer, showed to us was very…
Continue reading Screenwriting and Social Issues (part 2): Dylan Marron
Let’s talk about screenwriting. Let’s talk about gender. “The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and just how well rounded and complete those roles are. It is astonishing the…
Continue reading Screenwriting and Social Issues (Part 1): The Bechdel Test
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