10 Screenwriting Tips from The Coen Brothers on how they wrote No Country for Old Men and Fargo
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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American screenwriters and filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, and have edited almost all of them under the collective pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.
The brothers don't split up writing responsibilities - they "talk through" the dialogue and "work it out together," Joel coen explains. The process seems to be working for the brothers who wrote and directed Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man and True Grit. Joel Coen wrote a screenplay and directed The Tragedy of Macbeth.
0:00 - Intro
1:28 - 01 - You don’t have to follow a structured template to write a good screenplay - just go off by what feels right, the structure is already internalized in you.
2:09 - 02 - Make violence necessary for the story and the characters, rather than gratuitous.
3:36 - 03 - If you’re being true to the real world, your screenplay needs to be capricious, even if that means killing off important characters and changing the trajectory of the plot suddenly to reveal what the story is really about.
6:01 - 04 - Writing period pieces makes for a much more transporting exoticized experience for the audience than writing a contemporary story.
8:11 - 05 - Adapt the plot from real life, and make up your own characters to fit into that story.
8:48 - 06 - Don’t try to have your own unique style just for the sake of it, instead think about what the right “language” is for each project individually and a style might naturally emerge from your taste being reflected in them.
10:28 - 07 - Start writing a character that you would like to see a certain actor play, and write your next story from that character, even if you don’t end up casting that actor.
11:14 - 08 - Find your own process of making movies that works, even if that means pre-thinking the entire movie in your head before shooting.
13:16 - 09 - Whatever genre you’re writing in, the writing process is always the same - at the end of the day, it’s about problem solving.
14:02 - 10 - Focus your screenwriting on the story and let the audience draw their own conclusions about the film’s social commentary if they would like.
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These guys are great at writing side characters...I LOVE Walter Sobchek still.
@KenDavis-uo8kq
3 ай бұрын
Walter is hilarious 😂. Classic.
Can you please make a screenplay analysis on the comedy genre?
Legends.
Thank God there're still a few filmmakers out there who make great movies. Who are out there making quality films that don't bow to the declining ways of Hollywood.
@Joel-ik3sz
2 ай бұрын
You don't know enough about the current film landscape if you think that
Thank you very much!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! YES!
@i0anniz
2 жыл бұрын
FUCK YEAH
You should do screenwriting tips from: Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Batman) Drew Goddard (Bad Times at the El Royale)
@theexpresidents
2 жыл бұрын
Uhh no.
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
2 жыл бұрын
@@theexpresidents why? Cuz YOU say so?
Please, make top 10 advices from David chase
Top 10 in my opinion... 1 -No country for old men, 2 - Raising Arizona, 3 - Oh brother where art though, 4 - Fargo, 5 -The big Lebowski, 6 - The balled of Buster Scruggs, 7 - True Grit, 8 - Lady Killers, 9 - Inside Llewyn Davis 10 - Hail ceasar
@wilmingtonlongman
2 жыл бұрын
Miller's Crossing? Barton Fink?
@iz5808
2 жыл бұрын
No serious man?
من از ایران (از شهر کوچکی در استان لرستان) دنبال کننده جدی برادران کوئن هستم❤
Please make videos on Darren aronofsky .
❤❤❤❤
Buster Scruggs FTW
Cormac McCarthy wrote No Country for Old Men. The Coen brothers adapted McCarthy’s work to a screenplay.
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
Napoleon Coen Brothers
Now here are some real artists.
writing an adaptation is far easier than writing your own story from scratch.
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
Жыл бұрын
if so, then why was the Percy Jackson adaptation so bad?
@utsavdhyani8839
Жыл бұрын
Nooooooooo
@gianthills
Жыл бұрын
@@utsavdhyani8839 once its written the director can still screw it up.
@canaisyoung3601
Жыл бұрын
You shut your filthy liar mouth. Unless you went to film school, had a class on how to adapt books and news stories into movies, and managed a C despite tutoring and your best efforts, you are NOT allowed to say that.
@simeonlandis
Жыл бұрын
Nooooooooooo
Joel "sort of" Cohen.....
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
2 жыл бұрын
*Coen
The world is that kind of place? or is it really the issue of traumatized humans handing down their trauma since humans have been alive, creating a specie that needs to address this and actually evolve?
they said nothing really...
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
2 жыл бұрын
Whaddya mean, buddy?
@StashaTomic
2 жыл бұрын
@@TomEyeTheSFMguy I donno, you tell me.... buddy. What is it exactly that this video taught you, except that it ate you time, and that it earned some advertising cash upon your watching. Classic click bait. The Coens are geniuses, no doubt about it, but there certainly is no recipe to become one.
@TomEyeTheSFMguy
2 жыл бұрын
@@StashaTomic okay but it's not clickbait. What are you talking about? You're trying to say that they said nothing, when their tips were clear as day.
@thankyoujodi
2 жыл бұрын
They literally said don't be afraid to defy genres, don't focus on your theme but characters and story and let the audience derive meaning, cast actors as you're writing, don't be gratuitous, it's great to be prepared but the best shit is the unplanned things that fuel the creative process. Maybe it's too vague for you, but it's humbling to know that even the best don't have it all figured out.