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Karel FG Segers
Cinephilia and Beyond published a brilliant piece on David Mamet, where he rails against exposition. The article opens with James Foley’s director’s commentary on Glengarry Glen Ross, and it includes the full screenplay. I remember interviewing Foley at the time of the film’s first release. It struck me how Mamet was very much the elephant in the room … Read more
Over half a century on, Psycho is still a tremendous inspiration to low budget filmmakers, as Hitchcock shot the film on a shoestring budget of under a million dollars. Because many “B” movies did well commercially at the time, Hitchcock wanted to see if he could turn a solid, inexpensive film into a success. Keeping … Read more
On Twitter, I occasionally publish tips as and when I read scripts. Here, you see the video version of some. I’m trying to post every Monday. You can find me on Twitter as @ozzywood and the tips are here: https://bit.ly/KSTwTips [hr] [hr] Karel FG SegersKarel Segers wrote his first produced screenplay at age 17. Today … Read more
When Joseph Campbell was asked towards the end of his life what the mythology was that people were living by, he responded there was none. The times were changing too rapidly. Again today, things are changing fast. One of the trends seems to be the success of co-writing, both in the indie world and in … Read more
Over the past decades, screenwriting education has developed into a multi-million dollar industry with rock-star size individuals such as Robert McKee and the late Blake Snyder. All this really started with one book, published in 1979: “Screenplay – The Foundations of Screenwriting”, written by Syd Field. Syd Field was the first true screenwriting guru and … Read more