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The Editable "His Girl Friday" Screenplay in Final Draft, Fade In Pro, Fountain, and PDF Format

The Editable "His Girl Friday" Screenplay in Final Draft, Fade In Pro, Fountain, and PDF Format

What's not to love about the legendary screwball caper from 1940? If you're new to His Girl Friday, you're in for a treat. It's one of the original "rapid-fire repartee" comedies which influenced Tarantino, Sorkin, and many others. The conversation

Hollywood's Byzantine Generals Moment: It's Time For A Decentralised Live P2P Movie Streaming Network

Hollywood's Byzantine Generals Moment: It's Time For A Decentralised Live P2P Movie Streaming Network

Amazon recently bought MGM, the last old-school studio in Hollywood. We're now in the laps of Big Tech: the kind of people who describe Friday night at The Pictures as "content". Our future as it currently stands is studios and production companies being commissioned to produce

Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting

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

Story Catalysts: Accelerators, Instigators, Initiators, Inciters

Story Catalysts: Accelerators, Instigators, Initiators, Inciters

You've got that dramatic arc you want to play out in the scene, but how do you start it? What kicks off or provokes the action? You need a catalyst or provocation which jumps starts a context for your plot point to exist within. In chemistry, catalysis is

Deadly Sins of 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

Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life

Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life

Tucked away in Leigh Michaels' (LeAnn Lemberger's) excellent writers' guide, "On Writing Romance" (2007), is a fascinating snippet about male/female relations which wouldn't be amiss in the self-help section of your local bookstore. The concept of us being two different "

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Drama is not for the shallow, or the fainthearted. A good play or movie should be like a good meal: it leaves you fulfilled. Feelgood “drama” without any chaos is like McDonalds: it temporarily gratifies, but leaves you feeling empty. Art should set your soul on fire, not anesthetize you

Blocking Casting Call Chaos with Amazon Rekognition

Blocking Casting Call Chaos with Amazon Rekognition

Wannabe actors aren’t known for their discernment, or their professionalism. Every casting director has to go through the time-wasting rite of passage, aka The Shitshow, when they put out a casting call. Everyone wants to be famous. You’re looking for males with the age appearance of 25–30,

Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Variety finally gets it.In academic circles, two of the most quoted scholars when discussing film are Harold Vogel, and Ian MacDonald. The former wrote “Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis”, which establishes many of the accepted statistics of the field, such as there been an estimated 500,

ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON is a data model and object notation/interchange syntax for screenplays. In essence, it is “screenplays for computers”. * Word processors help humans to author scripts. * PDFs help humans to publish and read scripts. * ScreenJSON helps computer systems understand and analyze scripts. For the impatient, the documentation is here: https:

Murdering the President: Fighting for the Dark Soul of Drama

Murdering the President: Fighting for the Dark Soul of Drama

Majdanek Concentration Camp in Poland. Extermination camps exist in North Korea, and other communist shitholes. China runs “re-education camps” for people who need “re-training”.Pundits and critics the world over spend years of typing theses surrounding why audiences turn off from American-style melodrama. Let me save you the time: it’

If Shakespeare’s plays were Netflix loglines

If Shakespeare’s plays were Netflix loglines

Comedies All’s Well That Ends Well > A lovesick, unwanted wife fakes her own death and manipulates events to re-gain her wayward husband. As You Like It > A niece is banished from her uncle’s court and sets out on a journey with friends to a forest, where