Prepare Yourself For A Perfectly Outrageous Motion Picture. Paddy Chayefsky. It’s highly probable that you are not familiar with the name. But let me tell you, he was quite a filmmaker. A hell of a writer. During the 50s, 60s, and…
Monty Python on Monty Python, Part II: LIFE OF BRIAN
Bob McCabe wrote the book The Pythons’ Autobiography By The Pythons about the behind-the-curtains side of Monty Python‘s artistic life. Here we told about the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now it’s the turn of Monty Python’s…
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Monty Python on Monty Python, Part I: THE HOLY GRAIL
Bob McCabe wrote the book The Pythons’ Autobiography By The Pythons unveiling the behind-the-scenes of Monty Python’s artistic life. This post and the next will specifically deal with their 2 most successful movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and…
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NEW DEVELOPMENT. What Happened to HOLLYWOOD PART III: Amazon buys MGM.
Not even 24 hours after publishing our second post on Hollywood upside down by the sign of the new times, a very relevant bit of news today adds a new piece to the Hollywood puzzle: Jeff Bezos company, Amazon, has…
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What Happened to Hollywood? (PART II): Marvel, Disney & Netflix
Desperately Seeking Franchises. We continue telling the story of a Hollywood upside down. In our second post devoted to the very relevant book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz, we will find out…
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What Happened to Hollywood? (PART I): The New TV, China & franchises
The fight for the future of movies. Hollywood is upside down. The Hollywood of 2021 would never have been imagined in 2001. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies is a great book, written by Ben Fritz,…
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Honoring THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 30 years after
Along came a cannibal. 30 years have passed since Hannibal Lecter entered many people’s lives, mesmerizing them, becoming an instant icon. The Silence of the Lambs ended up winning 5 Oscars, all the “big ones” (best film, director, script, actor…
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Oliver Stone’s Great Autobiography is a Must
Oliver Stone is a film writer and a director with 3 Oscars on his shelf: Best Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Director for Platoon (1986), and Born on the 4th of July (1989). After Midnight Express, his writing…
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Subtext: The Magic Dust of Good Screenwriting
Some script experts don’t even mention it. Others, aware of the importance of subtext in movies, mention it all the time. I’ve spent a significant part of my time as a writer and a director thinking about it. Let’s find…
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Video-Analysis: The First 10 Minutes of HIS GIRL FRIDAY
During the first key 10-15 minutes of any movie, the audience takes a fundamental decision: they make their minds about going with the film or just disengaging. 10-15 minutes is the amount of time that filmmakers, in general, have to…
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