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Do you sometimes feel like you’re hearing the same lines over and over? You’d be surprised. Check out the compiled montage of Aaron Sorkin dialogue across his various TV shows and films. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78RzZr3IwI&w=600&h=374] If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video on … Read more
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Killing Them Softly: How A Screenwriter Murdered His Own Protagonist Character Analysis by Jamie Wynen Andrew Dominik’s (The Assassination of Jesse James, Chopper) latest film is an adaptation of the novel 1973 crime novel Cogan’s Trade, starring Brad Pitt as the excitingly dangerous Jackie Cogan, Animal Kingdom veteran Ben Mendelsohn, and the implausibly named Scoot McNairy. … Read more
Robert McKee is known for his Story weekend and his “Ten Commandments” of screenwriting. In this video, the screenwriting guru shoots from the hip about the 10 mortal sins that makes good dialogue go bad. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video … Read more