Lessons from the Screenplay
Lessons from the Screenplay
I believe that a more informed audience raises the bar for storytelling. That examining the techniques used to tell great stories makes your own writing better and your appreciation for the stories deeper.
With Lessons from the Screenplay, I make videos that analyze movie scripts to examine exactly how and why they are so good at telling their stories. Part educational series and part love letter to awesome films, Lessons from the Screenplay aims to be a fun way to learn more about your favorite films and help us all become better storytellers.
I’ll be releasing new videos every couple weeks, and taking suggestions about what scripts I should look at in future episodes.
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Its has a good explanation and reasoning. Thank you.
wow, captivating. now i have to see whiplash
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This is a God send 🙏🏾
Maybe my favorite video, Michael! Soooo good, so informative, and something I wanna share with every writer I talk to.
The idea of having Betty use her therapist to call out Don is so clever. Well, all of it is really. Great show.
This video has lived in my mind rent-free for years
grazie del tuo impegno
I love this video and view....Im in love with Sally. I dont have kids or a relationship. I keep sticking it in.
Completely wrong at 14:11. Films main goal is not to manipulate audiences, even though artists tend to use it for that purpose. Film is an emotional representation of human desires and dreams.
where do you get the script for THE LAST OF US? I really want to read it.
* 1st act thesis: Alan's strength: Dinosaurs, which are dead, ancient animals. * 2nd act anti-thesis: Alan's weakness: Children, which are living, new humans. (Weakness is always just the opposite of strength). * 3rd act synthesis: Having strengthened his weak side, Alan can finally combine both sides to save the day.
Bro this is called plagiarism lmao
tell me why I cried watching this video I just wanted to learn character design but Soul always brings this reaction out of me
I love love LOVE this reframing of what makes an act! It's so... active. In Story, McKee says "every scene must turn," but I had such a hard time learning what that really meant until I read Story Grid. And even then, I sort of had to take all the ideas apart and then reorganize them with language that actually excited me, language that really made me wanna write. This is so immediate. Already, it gives me ideas - what's the question of each act in my book? And then the turning points can be moments where that question is answered - pushed into 2, midpoint, surrender/epiphany. "Answer scenes." Ahhhh so cool
Great points but Rogue One is 1000% better than The Force Awakens. Others have pointed to your missteps, so I won't pile on...but still breakdown of the scripts.
Hard agree.
The moment where Laura reveals her power and Logan starts to fight to protect her… Seeing a little girl terrify and brutalize all of those ruthless killers… man that gets me.
Damn dude - Will is an enneagram 7, hard! I never thought about that before the way you talk about him in this video.
My god this is the mother of all pitches
Friendship, but maybe more🤔
I watched the trilogy Swedish version. They were hard to follow.
Could I ask where you'd recommend I go to read more screenplays?
The only thing I didn’t like about this video is you using Female Shepard for the edits. Damn. That just doesn’t make any sense somehow. It takes away the ground reality of humans of sorts, like Ned being a female in Game of Thrones. You know what I mean. The soldier is a man, with all the fiction in the mass effect, some things like this needs to put us humans properly in the shoes of story. Making it a mirror of our reality, that this fiction could be real, as it mirrors of our own and makes sense. Thats why the game was such a hit back then. Most people played it as male and replayed with female. Older real world history has men fighting wars. And thats why the classic media depicting men as fighters resonate with our own humanity. There are many other female characters in the game, which give it it’s weight, they can be used as such.Not being misogynistic, just being real and true.
Well parasite can looked in two different ways. That is the common thing with both families
I think xmen 97 has become the next perfect TV series, We need a Mass Effect TV Series
I'm not convinced that No Country is about the amorality of society. Bell quits because the world is too violent for him, but he now gets to spend more time with his wife and he is no longer in danger of dying on the job - away from her. Moss, Wells and Chigurh all cooperate with evil in a way. Chigurh is just as free as the rest of them, despite his attempts to make himself seem like the eternal force of death. Carla Jean is right, he doesn't have do do it. They all freely cooperate with good or evil, and while none of it is completely fair, none of it is completely unjust either. Moss steals money, Wells and Chigurh are guns for hire. Good does happen to people who want good. Bad happens to people who want bad. Yes, Chigurh doesn't die, but he's not unscathed and he will have to (as he already has) live his life on the run. Yes Carla Jean dies, and that is tragic, but there are evil people in the world. That, I believe is what McCarthy is getting at: No matter how violent and evil the world is, telling the truth and doing what is right is still the best option.
You lost me at Fem Shep. Don’t you think we have enough strong female, Mary Sues out there. Regular Shepard is the true Shepard. Geez
I smoke and drink too much when I watch this show
Nina also has a abusive mentor too. She's willing to endure sexual assault in her craft, a sacred space, in order to become the Black Swan.
I’m a ballerina and jazz musician. Just wow. That’s all I have to say. I have so much to say about Wiplash and much more about black swan. I can’t say it all in a comment
I love both movies but black swan is something else ❤❤❤ she literally killed herself to be black swan
Such an awesome video
Thanks!
Hey, thank *you*!
how is there no reference to perfect Blue?
a shame
Outward in inward
We think linearly, but the aliens think non-linearly
Whilst the points made here are “technically” correct I felt that Rogue One was a much better film and story and that is probably because despite what it got wrong I think it got a lot more right than Force Awakens. But this is why screenwriting and film making is such a hard thing to get right - doing things by the book only gets you so far. A myriad of other choices need to be correctly made or fall into place by luck for something to work and be good
It’s funny about the mask creepiness. For Halloween I once made a mask of my own face. It creeped people out.
amazing editing on this video!:)
What about the moment of redemption when Rita "buys" Phil at the auction and she empties out her purse to do so? He wakes up in the morning and she is there and he asks, why are you here? And she says, I bought you, I own you. Redemption. That broke the cycle but it was because she saw his maturity and selflessness and wanted him, kind of a modern day Pinocchio story. Great movie and great overview!
Thank you for the wonderful video. The film is so beautiful and in my opinion has received far too little attention.
EAGLE ONE FOX THREE
So this boils down to: *”he should’ve never simped”*
Great video, although I noticed you left out covering the character development of Tony Stark when he traveled back in time - he discovers his dad was actually more "balanced" in having concern for his family than he previously thought, and is able to let go the resentment towards his dad that Tony had been carrying inside him for decades and had contributed to Tony's initially flawed character.
the ending to true detective season 1 literally made me break my computer with how intense it was, accidently spilled water on it like 2 months ago lmao
Collateral and the Death of Neon - It's on KZread and is awesome. It shows how drastically the lighting effects are and how the digital format was used to give a movie it's very unique feel. It's a great watch and I highly recommend it.