Month: <span>October 2010</span>
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Best o/t Web 31 Oct
:: Screenplay rejection letter from 1920s movie studio :: A seminar with Billy Wilder :: Stuck as a writer's assistant? :: Are parentheticals overused?…
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Video: The Formula For A Winning Trailer
All trailers look the same. Why? Because great movies have the same story components. [debate follows] Here, in the greatest…
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Cinematic Storytelling (4)
Below is yet another example of narrative paintings. This one by Wes Christensen and titled “John’s Dilemma.” As strange as I know…
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Best o/t Web 24 Oct
:: On Subtext :: Fears and Questions of Science Fiction :: Complications, Reversals, and Roadblocks :: Restoring Chaplin gems :: Movie quotes that had us…
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How To Make Our Myths
In late 2009 I wrote an essay for Lumina, called Make our Myths. This essay argued that the purpose of…
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The Hero Must Change!
Blake Snyder describes it thus: “The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in…