Michael L
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The Cakes List 2014 is now posted in Chit Chat. Bring on your lists my fellow devotees. As with obsessive record collecting, we try to master what masters us...
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Happy Holidays to one and all. Just like to say this consistently stays a great resource. Thanks to all the contributors - Hit List, Black List, FYC scripts, old scripts, spec scripts, TV scripts. Just great. Thank you. Now make sure you read some of the scripts instead of just having a million of them. So much to learn. Never give up on your writing dreams. Never ever.
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story endings with protagonists walking away from camera, resuming an argument or banter or repartee? It seems like a convention (like riding off into sunset), yet I'm stuck for examples.
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story endings with protagonists walking away from camera, resuming an argument or banter or repartee? It seems like a convention (like riding off into sunset), yet I'm stuck for examples.
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There is a script floating around where a major traffic jam is caused by an alien attack. Anyone know the name?
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It wouldn't be SNOWFALL, would it? http://forum.tracking-board.com/index.php?/topic/12891-snowfall-brooks-elms-and-glenn-sanders/
Sounds kind of similar: "Centers on a group of Chicago residents trapped on the EI during the blizzard of the century which they come to find is a cover for an alien invasion."
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May I take a moment, as the trailer for NIGHTCRAWLER is so tasty - I'd just like to stop for a moment and say, damn, page 40 of the 11.27.2012 draft is downright delicious.
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What are some good examples of movies/screenplays with two or three separate storylines that don't necessarily intersect?
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There are not many better feelings than typing FADE OUT. I'm headed out for several drinks because I just had the pleasure of typing those words.
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As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...
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...apparently for many here TV is rewarding on repeat visits, so, so much for my psuedo-scientific speculations. On a perhaps unrelated note I once went around counting cuts-per-minute in TV shows vs films, just to see if there were any glaring differences in timing and momentum. If I recall they were quite similar. Anyway, none of this helping me deal with the massive exposition dump smoldering at the end of my overlong first "act." Back to work, friends...!
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As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...
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Thanks for thoughts -- I agree with many. I also think there's something to be said for design, and how that resonates with us. And historically in films there really has been a high level of consideration applied to shotmaking and prod design, that television because of its production constraints, usually doesn't allow its filmmakers to indulge to the same degrees. And I think this is built in to the best screenplays. All of this of course subjective and...
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As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...
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As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...
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And that intimate submersion is also the very thing that has one feeling that when the TV ride is over, it's over? Or, reverse angle -- if a writer has an "epic" idea, how does he or she know which format it should take? Does it come down to whim or aesthetics, or is there something more concrete one might recognize in, like, the dna of the idea? This should be a mini-series. That should be a movie. ?
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As great as so much television is these days, and as addictively as I tune in to some of it, I tend not to re-watch it. Yet I do re-watch movies. I'm curious if others have similar tendencies. And thoughts on why that is (or isn't). Assuming this is the case for others, is it something as simple as production value? Or does it go deeper? Does it have to do with the story mechanics? Like, in order to go on this 2 hour journey, movies are super-compressed with idea and emotion, and...
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...therefore every minute of that ride has a charge that longer form storytelling by design cannot sustain? And one returns to the movie seeking re-up of that emotional hit? Conversely, does the irresistible attraction to follow a favorite TV show come in part from the minutiaes of character and story that we're afforded because its format is stretched out (something we can't get in 2 hrs)?
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Hey everyone if you have an end of year list similar to the ones Cakes and Jaco did in the LISTS section here that you'd like to go up on the site, take a look there and add one in. Can't promise they'll all make the site, but it'll be fun!
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Hey everyone if you have an end of year list similar to the ones Cakes and Jaco did in the LISTS section here that you'd like to go up on the site, take a look there and add one in. Can't promise they'll all make the site, but it'll be fun!
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Harvey thinks little of U.S. filmgoers, wants to hack up "Snowpiercer": http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/blockage-line-snowpiercer-vs-scissorhands
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Congratulations to all of you who made The Hit List!!!
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Nice going, Double-D! http://www.tracking-board.com/a-boy-and-his-tiger-sales/
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Gizmado is listing the best Cyber Monday deals, and I'm interested in a e-reader 'cause it's so damn cheap ($39). Has anyone had experience with a Nook Simple Touch? Might it be a good entry into an e-reader for PDF scripts? http://gizmodo.com/the-best-cyber-monday-deals-1474441564/@shanerobertscommerce
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I didn't try the Nook but did the Kindle Touch - which is comparable in screen size - and found it too small. I know others here say it's great. But because scripts are fixed-format and 1 page has to be 1 page, if it displays too small for your tastes, you're left panning and scanning, which I find to be a drag. For digital scripts you might be ok with the size as they tend to fit the page better and may read larger; scans are less consistent, & often beg bigger viewing.
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anyone recommend seeing the counselor?
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I'd recommend. I liked. I'm still thinking about things a week later (in a good way). That said, I have some questions, and there were things I maybe wasn't loving, but not to the excoriating extent many in the press seem to have not been loving. Or the dude next to my table in the Thai restaurant. Who was not loving rather loudly.
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I would love to see Pixar make this logline winning film - http://bit.ly/17AaAmj
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"They're coming for you, Barbara."
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Question: I'm looking for screenplays in the vein of Roman Polanski's Repulsion: relatively contained, psychological horror/thrillers with small casts. Also any movies you can suggest similar to Repulsion? Psycho and Black Swan came to mind though they aren't exactly like Repulsion they do exist in a similar plane (main character struggling to maintain their sense of sanity/losing their sanity, etc. Thanks!
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Not sure about "contained" but these come to mind... Gaslight (dir. George Cukor), Rosemary's Baby (Polanksi), Safe (Todd Haynes), 3 Women (Robert Altman), Taxi Driver (Scorsese), Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller), Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne), Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols), The Machinist (Brad Anderson), The Innocents (Jack Clayton), The Shining (Kubrick), Anti-Christ (Lars von Trier)...
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Anyone read anything funny lately?
