This led me to completely turn a script I wrote, rewrote and submitted, on it's head! It has led my tip of the iceberg idea something deeper! Now: to tear it apart😅

@mondayjulymonday

22 күн бұрын

Then when producers inevitably give you notes, all that work will have been for nothing.

What changed my screenwriting was reading Adventures In The Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman. My own "voice" was weak, then those books threw a hand grenade into my head and I've gone from strength to strength ever since. My "voice" is now assertive, clear and I'm so much more fearless in taking the story to places I would once have been too lacking in confidence to go to. My own tip: Know your characters before you begin, then you'll know exactly how they'll react in any dramatic situation, and that will just snowball the narrative.

@FindOutTech

5 ай бұрын

What process do you use to get to know your characters?

@keithv2974

11 күн бұрын

Knowing your characters is a good habit. Take it one step further. Get rid of the characters. Put people in your story. Scrap the main character and put your dad in the story. Put your sister in there. Your least favorite high school English teacher. Combine the people in your life to create a new person. People are different than characters. They are illogical, unpredictable, emotional, confusing and complex. Whether they are fictional or not isn't the point. Whether they are alive or not isn't the point. They are alive in your head and that's all that matters. Here is what I tell writers: Think about the people in your dreams. Do you refer to them as characters? No, because they, in some strange cosmic way, have their own life. They are not created to push a plot like a character is. They are people with their own hopes and dreams and worries. A person and a character are as different as a theme park ride made up to look like a swampy forest and an actual swampy forest. Ask yourself, if you were to film a scene in a swampy forest, would you rather film in on a set, or go to the real thing? Same thing with people. Why stuff your story full of characters when the world is filled with people?

I like how the image of Pulp Fiction lit up right when he said "poorly written." Lol!

The link for the TAxi Driver script actually brings up the script for Maverick.

Holy moly hes amazing all words perfectly chosen

This is fab! Can you do '10 Screenwriting Tips from Susannah Grant'?

Great tips there thank you. His book on Transcendental Cinema is great too.

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Tolstoy

Cinema Cartography described Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now better than the actual creators did tbh

Wasn’t sure he was going to make it through the interview.

@christophlohnherr

2 ай бұрын

You really made me laugh. I read your comment in part 2 of his advice and thought the same… I admire his work, though. Great writer, great director.

Man really wrote Taxi Driver and.... First Reformed, which plays out like a sophomore college student who just got kicked out of his youth ministry group and then discovered pollution in his responsible citizenship class 101 class.

The Mystery: I like to remind people that a Rorschach Test is meant to probe the psyche of the viewer, not of the guy who made the inkblots.

more content pls

I got ten tips for paul

Make a video about "Satyajit Ray"

What is this from

1. Have written Taxi Driver.

1:29

🙏🙏🙏❤

9:57. Quentin Tarantino, anyone?

Need new videos brother waiting on you 🫰🏼🔥

Thanks for the video, but the background soundtrack is so annoying.

Don't be the stereotype. Be the metaphor.

What is "Letting the mystery"? English issue there…

@ArthurSanford3706

7 ай бұрын

The full phrase was "Letting the mystery be." Like letting something be

👋😁

Any tips from someone who wrote a screenplay this decade?

@theexpresidents

8 ай бұрын

Screenwriting hasn't gotten any better. In fact, it's worse. Read Preston Sturges or Robert Towne. Now read some woke bullshit. Decide for yourself.

@mchammer1836

7 ай бұрын

A classic like Taxi Driver is timeless

@kryptonkiller

7 ай бұрын

@@mchammer1836a masterpiece!

@juliechatterjee5901

4 ай бұрын

​@@theexpresidents Coverfly is filled with woke crap, I submitted my script obviously not selected but when i went through the synopsis of the quarterfinal scripts, most of them were woke.

Çould their be a more overrated movie? So much sin in this world and all these Hollywood demons are adding to it with glee

The heavy labored breathing is too distracting man, level that out.