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RIP Carrie Fisher
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Blacklist read recommendations? Usually it's pretty easy for me to find scripts on the list that impress but this time, after quite a few false starts, I've been struggling to find anything I want to read (or, if I did read, glad that I did).
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nothing wrong with crater, but if i’m a director, i’m noticing empty directions that are useless in my hands. the mood is created, but if i’m director, i might seriously ignore what “the writer says happens”. the writer should create only the story, because the elements of greatness are the director’s choice only. but decent framing of the story by the writer says i.
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True Detective - thoughts on how they resolved what happened at the end of last week's episode with Farrell's character? Good, bad, meh?
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Just saw the trailer for Maggie. Looks great! How was the script?
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A while back there was a Breaking Bad Official Scripts book with all the scripts from season one. Apparently, the publisher has pulled it and it's now unavailable (glad I picked up a copy). Out of curiosity, anyone know why it was pulled?
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Is Homeland a show about the CIA or a drama about the struggles with mental illness? I'm so confused.
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I'm curious - is it as unsurprising to others that Need for Speed underperformed analyst expectations? I've been tracking it because it seemed like expectations were overblown from day 1 (it was definitely not under-marketed).
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Box Office Mojo had an interesting analysis going into the weekend.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3798&p=.htm
Here's a bit of it:
There is some cynicism surrounding Need for Speed due to its transparent similarities to the Fast & Furious series and its awful reviews (23 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). Also, the marketing has failed to show much in the way of story, which has consistently taken a back seat (get it?) to the fast cars. This is en...
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Academy Awards or True Detective... Well, that's an easy choice. I'll find out who won the awards on twitter or something.
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So does anyone know why Sovereign is written in haiku? I'm really confused (and incredibly distracted when trying to read it).
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I liked the style -- very reader seductive, (or in your case irritating I suppose the intention was that every line would be a very precise shot and the script would function like an "editor's handbook," showing how to bascially just sequence a bunch of images. My only concern was that the style may expand a thinish script: you are taking five lines to say something that could have been said in one. But having read it, I don't think, at least for this script, such was the c...
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DD CONGRATS on making the blacklist!!!!!
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I really wanted to feel... *something* about what happened to Brody but the lead-up was so poor I was just kind of ambivalent. And what was with Carrie?? For the emotional wreck she's been this season she was oddly calm about everything that went down. Talking with the people responsible for Brody's outcome as though nothing happened. No attempted eye gouging or anything.
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An utterly disastrous finale.
Not re-upping on this one. Pointe, HBO.
The season wasn't a complete waste tho. Felt the season had nearly redeemed itself from the Dana shenanigans and general waywardness when Brody got to Tehran. The penultimate episode was damn good.
BUT
holy fuck what a shitty conclusion.
Great dilemma set up for Saul, save the mission but not Brody and they almost immediately resolved it.
Then that lon...
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Opie, I believe the bomber was the guy killed and liquefied at the motel. Axalon, great point about how bizarre it was that they gave station chief to Carrie. Even if she weren't completely unstable no one at the CIA trusts her! They wouldn't give her station chief for Switzerland, let alone a high priority like Turkey. And they really did need more Quinn.
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Did I miss something or am I just really drunk? Isn't there some kind of list supposta be comin out today?
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Watching a show about mental health issues and emotional disorders is interesting and all but I'll admit I do miss the days when Homeland was about the CIA and espionage.
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According to Gahgan, this is an old screenwriting expression: "Shall we have him pet the dog?" First, has anyone actually heard that expression before? Second, what the eff does that mean?? (and if you're speculating, fine but please say so, and if you have source, please provide)
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It's also called "save the cat" which Blake Snyder re-coined with his screenwriting book of the same name. Protag does something that makes us like him right off the bat. I read Safe House (orig spec) recently and laughed out loud when the protag literally helps an old lady struggling with her groceries on page four. He "saved the cat"
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I really like Max's writing and his style but... man, that interview was something else. Wouldn't want any women I know near him.
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Great ending. Much better than "cut to black..."
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In preparation for the final episode, I rewatched the Breaking Bad pilot. It's amazing how well written that show is from the get-go. THAT is how a pilot is supposed to be written.
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I just finished THIS IS 40. That was one depressing movie. I've seen holocaust movies more lighthearted than that. If that's what marriage is -- I am nothing but glad I didn't make that mistake!
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Any thoughts on Low Winter Sun pilot episode? I caught bits and pieces of it and other than the fact it tracked the script, I haven't decided what I think of it. (Breaking Bad was incredible, of course!)
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It's interesting to hear the "lots of tone, no substance" comments. That's kind of how I felt watching it but I didn't see all of it and felt like I was being too quick to judge. The pilot felt like it was going to the tone of something like Breaking Bad without putting in the work to earn it. Breaking Bad is what it is because of all the seasons that went before this one.
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Stephen Gaghan wrote Call of Duty: Ghosts?? I would have bought the game anyway, but that's pretty fuckin awesome! I love that big games have been placing a lot of effort into creating compelling narratives.
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I can't speak to The Last of Us, but for other games with great narrative, I agree 100% with what Fsalmon1 said: you have to play the game to really immerse yourself in the story. You become invested and its more powerful than a movie (imo) when someone you have invested hours in either dies or does something shocking. I still remember playing a war game in which the character you play spends an entire level trying to escape a town only be be blown up in an atomic blast. That doesn...
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Random question - what type of siren is it that they use in the True Blood Season 6 teaser? I recognize it but can't place it. I thought it was a nuclear/civil defense siren but it's not, it's something completely different. This is driving me crazy trying to figure it out. Link to teaser:
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So... I think I missed something. What happened with ScriptShadow? I've been busy with work and house buying and apparently ScriptShadow is no longer reviewing scripts...? He's received death threats from pasty-skinned writers for years. What changed this time?
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I went to SS now and then and it was good snarky analysis and some solid tips, but nothing mind blowing. I think he's blown his wad but if he can find new writers and promote never before seen scripts that people love, he may be able to rise from the ashes. I just think he didn't stick to his "brand" and it fell apart. He is not a producer, he was a script coverage guy. Now, if he worked as a development exec or as a dev coordinator and secretly worked his way up and was...
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Trailer for Jack Reacher looks good. Doesn't look anything like what I remember from the screenplay for One Shot...? (granted, it's been a while since I read that one).
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Just finished reading Oblivion. WOW! Great stuff!
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Just realized Wettest County in the World was renamed Lawless (yeah, I'm a bit slow)... what the hell? Another example of taking a memorable name and turning it into generic mush.