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The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage
screenwriting

The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage

We all know it when we see it. Audiences are experts in sensing – and ignoring - the intentions of writers and filmmakers when they attempt to surreptitiously program their perception of reality. Stalin became fascinated with it and made the industrial capture of the art form a top political priority.

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen Dec 27, 2021 • 22 min read
Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting
film

Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting

Art is not about activism; drama is not about deconstruction; stories are not sociology; plots are not about propaganda or "power dynamics"; arcs are not "analysis"; ideas are not ideology; teleology is not "theory"; juxtaposition is not about "justice"; characters are not low-resolution caricatures; nature is not about "narratives"; writing

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen May 4, 2021 • 31 min read
Deadly Sins of Screenwriting
screenwriting

Deadly Sins of Screenwriting

Art has month purposes, but its sacred one is to reveal truth. Greek mythology and the Bible all speak in stories. Aristotle uses the same word as St Paul to describe a crucial thing which underpins everything that makes us human and drives art: Hamartia. In The Poetics, Hamartia is

  • Alex Coppen
Alex Coppen Oct 17, 2020 • 26 min read
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