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Video: Pulp Fiction Inspiration [QT]
This video is just as informative and entertaining without the sound as with. Try for yourself.
I am certain that Tarantino must have had a career as a pantomime artist before becoming the world’s most dialogue-obsessed director.
It’s interesting how Tarantino in the 100 seconds of this clip doesn’t mention co-writer Roger Avary. Maybe it was cut. Or maybe not…
With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.
Video: Mitchell & Webb Film Director
I assure you that there is no connection whatsoever between today’s newsletter from Screen Australia containing a series of funding approvals and the choice of this video.
I am just guessing some of you need a little bit of fun to shake off the funk.
With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.
Video: Chris Vogler and The Matrix
The Hero’s Journey is the missing link between storytelling and the human condition. It explains why main characters in movies are flawed, why they go through particular stages, why we like a happy ending… and why movies that ignore all this, mostly fail.
In this video, Chris Vogler, the author of The Writer’s Journey, walks us through the twelve story stages while referring to The Matrix. Apologies for the poor picture quality (I had to aspect-ratio convert the original, which you can still watch on YouTube).
With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.
Video: Robert McKee On Formulaic Writing
When McKee speaks, many listen because he likes to be blunt. Here he seems to go against the likes of Michael Hauge, who place certain turning points at certain pages or percentages of the script. But the Queen Bee Guru gets it wrong, too…
At some point during this video, McKee says
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was in seven acts.
It could be seven, eight, nine acts structures,
in “Speed,” if you counted the major reversals
in a chase film like “Speed” it’s probably nine.”
Thereby he ignores the difference between a sequence and an act. This is not helpful. As a matter of fact, the more I hear McKee, the more I wonder whether he actually has much practical advice to offer for screenwriters.
What do you think?
With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.