Remember when I was a budding screenwriter working on a script about truck drivers? Man, that was fun. This is the sort of thing I would clip out of the New York Times. Matter of fact, I have an old clipping filed away about a trucker preacher a bit younger than this one from those days.
Tag: screenwriting,
“Big Lebowski” Script
A big hunk of the script, to settle debates and hone fine references. Nomenclature. In today’s parlance. These men are nihlists Donny, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Film Techniques of Alfred Hitchcock
A fun illustrated list of some of the master’s favorite tricks. Back in film school, this boiled down to one important sentence: Keep a bomb under the table. via YDA
Tony Soprano didn’t just get whacked; he practically got a funeral – BobHarris.com
I could care less about the Sopranos, but I love this sort of obsessive attention to detail in a piece of screenwriting, and the guy who wrote this post has done the heavy lifting to reveal quite a bit of that detail. via Howard.
Tony Soprano didn’t just get whacked; he practically got a funeral – BobHarris.com
Wired 15.01: The Meteor Farmer
“Using a souped-up metal detector, a shovel, and a treasure map, Steve Arnold combs the flat Kansas wheat fields for rocks from outer space.”
Italy Picks Oscar Hopeful – SF Chronicle
Note to self: Write the screenplay for Grandma’s second book, but get the movie made in Russia, in all the applicable languages. Win Oscar.
Ryan Sholin 