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Take a fallen action movie star, plant him in a foreign language arthouse movie and tell his story. You might end up with indigestible pretention… or gold. by Karel Segers Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself, a dead end, down-and-out Hollywood star who returns to retire in his home country. But when he wants to withdraw … Read more
With the 5th and final season of Breaking Bad underway, let’s look back at how it started. The pilot episode planted this drama series squarely on the map and to my taste, Breaking Bad became an instant classic. The show is loved as much by its audience as by the critics and industry peers. Most … Read more
In Part four on the Academy Screenwriters’ series, some of America’s top scribes discuss strategies to overcome mediocre writing and achieve excellence in scripts. Not that you’re writing mediocre stuff, but… well, you know. The full series of interviews is here. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if … Read more
So what other things can lateral thinking offer the process of opening your story? Lateral thinking is about taking other paths, offering new things, surprise. by Lee Matthias (Continued from Part 3) If the story’s stylistics dictate that the opening plunge directly into the main narrative, then the approach would be to examine the story events that come first and … Read more
Of the surface approaches to structure that I have looked at, the Sequence method is my method of choice. This is because it offers the writer the ability to manage the story as it is written and keep centered along the way. by Lee Matthias (Continued from Part 2) While its main benefit is in … Read more