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  1. chandolaswinter

    Getting ready to go to Austin (as a finalist.) Pretty nervous. Anyone else going?

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Break legs Chando...

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  2. axalon

    TBers who use tablets to read scripts on (iPad, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab) How has your experience been with it? Does it hurt your eyes to read off something like that for extended periods of time?

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Kindle DX! (it's the big one) Discontinued but I still use it despite having other devices. It feels made for screenplays.

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  3. aphid47

    I enjoyed Captain Phillip even though I knew the ending already.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Yeah, but to its credit it's left ambiguous. You can't rule out that he's not a droid.

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  4. npquinn

    Tony Gilroy Screenwriting Special http://goo.gl/FHT0re

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Thanks. His BAFTA lecture was cool too. I dig that series.

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  5. Michael L

    "I hate space."

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Right?

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  6. Michael L

    As someone who regularly questions his sanity and abilities in this uncertain and often agonizing endeavor, I'd like to extend a big, blanket loving thanks to all you TBers who have shared your work here. With so many stories around us, just sheer numbers, it's easy to forget that every screenplay is in some ways evidence of a battle. Proof its author tangled with the abyss, and emerged to write another day. Presenting it to the world then takes a whole other kind of courage.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      So whenever it's someone from this community doing that, it brings the reality of both the struggle and the reward to the foreground, for me. And that is comforting. Because damn, writing is scary, and hard, and lonely. And it's good to not feel alone. So... respect. And thank you. And, I owe you some reading.

       

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  7. andrewpwoodberry

    Works in Progress Experiment... I'm gonna try some fun writing sprint exercises in W.I.P. section this weekend. Will go from Idea->Title->Outline->Completed 1st Draft Pilot. Follow along and watch me fail (or succeed).

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      APW you are on fire.

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  8. Michael L

    We all got it comin', kid.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Totally. And as evocative as McCarthy's prose is, it's somehow unpretentious. There aren't many writers who can immerse me in a world I need a thesaurus to understand, but don't want to leave (Suttree, anyone?). (btw, Mike, halfway through Child-44 - book - and loving it)

       

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  9. Nic.Lishko

    What are your favorite scripts/films that are all shot in [mostly] one location?

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      It's not one of my favorites, but Hitchcock's ROPE comes to mind. Also one of the first to endeavor a continuous "take."

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  10. amythurlow

    Currently obsessed with Top of the Lake

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      ...I'm still trying to understand what makes something what, but...). Top of the Lake had some masterful moments, imo. I thought it extremely cinematic for the small screen. Hunter was a treat and Mullan -- damn -- man just slays everything in his path. Thank you Jane Campion. Now someone post the script(s) please...

       

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  11. amythurlow

    Currently obsessed with Top of the Lake

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      I'm finding myself drawn to this format more and more, both as a viewer and from a point of view of writing; just trying to understand how it ticks. How does it differ from a two hour story. The need to keep things moving on a canvas which is opened way up. What is this called -- long-format? Mini-series? Forbrydelsen, Bron/Broen, Carlos, Rectify - some great stuff happening in this vein (arguably some of these play more like serial TV and others more like long movie-show, and I guess I...

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  12. Michael L

    Speaking of walking out, I've been trying to read the books ahead of the scripts concerning certain adaptations. So I'm halfway through Ender's Game (book), and I'm surprised to say I don't think I can finish.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Good so it's not just me. Ok... Child 44, how you doin?

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  13. Mr Cakes

    Oh, my, The Heat was horrid. Horrid, horrid putrid.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      I can't read that without laughing (I had to look up Burke and Hare).

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  14. Mr Cakes

    Oh, my, The Heat was horrid. Horrid, horrid putrid.

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Do you ever walk out of a movie? I'd love to hear what pictures folks have fled...

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  15. npquinn

    Scott Frank: Screenwriting Lecture by BAFTA http://goo.gl/4DChi

  16. Michael L

    Anyone know a film or show with the milieu of paparazzi life and/or a paparazzo as a principal character?

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Thanks!

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  17. Michael L

    "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      Ha! Just discovered comments function with this. Yeah, I'm a little slow on the draw. Good times.

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  18. ddollar

    you know how much of screenwriting is simplifying? i'd say most of it

    1. Michael L

      Michael L

      I find it (seemingly) ironic, that getting to simple is often so damn hard.

       

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