Thanks for connecting, Jake!
Thanks, April. I always enjoy the Hatch film festival here in Montana, but I have not yet gone to any other film festivals.
Hi Anne, great to meet you and welcome to Arlington International Film Festival. My best,
Just finished reading Richard Price's THREE SCREENPLAYS: THE COLOR OF MONEY, SEA OF LOVE, AND NIGHT AND THE CITY (New York: Grove Press, 1993). The introductory interview by Neal Gabler alone is worth the price of the used paperback. Excellent interview and excellent screenplays, which include a sho...
Expand postJust finished reading Richard Price's THREE SCREENPLAYS: THE COLOR OF MONEY, SEA OF LOVE, AND NIGHT AND THE CITY (New York: Grove Press, 1993). The introductory interview by Neal Gabler alone is worth the price of the used paperback. Excellent interview and excellent screenplays, which include a shooting script, a first draft, and a reworked script. Great examples of how to do dialogue!
I met Price when he gave a scriptwriting workshop at a Hatch film festival in Bozeman, Montana, about ten years ago. A gracious person, not like his tough and rough NYC characters.
Richard Price is a great dramatist, and was first a novelist before hyphenating to screenwriter. So to be a great novelist AND a great screenwriter is nothing short of stunning. The man is quite simpl...
Expand commentRichard Price is a great dramatist, and was first a novelist before hyphenating to screenwriter. So to be a great novelist AND a great screenwriter is nothing short of stunning. The man is quite simply a Writing God. I would also recommend viewing the original version of Night and the City, and reading the original novel written by Gerald Kersh, who himself was also a Writing God and one all-around bad-ass mofo. Even the great writer Harlan Ellison refers to Mr. Kersh as his favorite writer. RIP, Gerald Kersh.
Thanks, Bill, for the recommendation.
Just finished reading Richard Price's THREE SCREENPLAYS: THE COLOR OF MONEY, SEA OF LOVE, AND NIGHT AND THE CITY (New York: Grove Press, 1993), and the introductory interview by Neal Gabler alone is w...
Expand commentJust finished reading Richard Price's THREE SCREENPLAYS: THE COLOR OF MONEY, SEA OF LOVE, AND NIGHT AND THE CITY (New York: Grove Press, 1993), and the introductory interview by Neal Gabler alone is worth the price of the used paperback. Excellent interview and excellent screenplays — one a shooting script, another a first draft, and the other a reworked script. Great examples of how to do dialogue!
Thanks Anne, I have learned a lot from the FutureLearn courses and I hope you do as well.
Yes, I enjoy the courses and the clean platform, but it becoming time for me to finish to a script as the next one keeps poking ideas into my mind.
Hi. I'm a writer currently living in Bozeman, Montana. As a historical consultant, I contributed in a small way to Eight Men Out, Rocketeer, various documentaries, and some film projects that never reached production. I have attended and volunteered at many Hatch film festivals, where I enjoyed a sc...
Expand postHi. I'm a writer currently living in Bozeman, Montana. As a historical consultant, I contributed in a small way to Eight Men Out, Rocketeer, various documentaries, and some film projects that never reached production. I have attended and volunteered at many Hatch film festivals, where I enjoyed a screenwriting workshop given by Richard Price most of all, but also enjoyed screening student films submitted in the annual competition. After years of straight historical research and writing, I am writing historical fiction — screenplays with elements of drama, adventure and comedy in the stories. I draw inspiration from the movie The Milagro Beanfield War, which treated a serious and divisive topic with respect for all people involved. I think a job reading scripts would help in my transition to writing solid, successful, sold screenplays. I see getting an agent as a challenge. I am pleased to meet you.
Thanks for the additional links. Those were provided in the MOOC I took: An Introduction to Screenwriting, taught by Michael Lengsfield and three other screenwriters via University of East Anglia on the FutureLearn platform. An excellent brief introduction.
I know FutureLearn too and use it, but I simply searched on Google for "screenplays online free" and wrote down the first results.
I simply listed the one that meets my current needs. Also, I found that a simple search by the title of a movie in quotation marks and the word screenplay will pop up the desired screenplay.
When you write a script and the title of the script is exactly that of a movie, is that considered as plagiarism? Given you've written on a totally different idea.
Hahahah, yes Brian that's the whole point.
Even though titles cannot be copyrighted, and thus reuse of titles occurs, titles can be protected by trademarks, and there is the question whether the title's previous use brings positive association to the audience's mind.
Yes Anne, that last part is also an excellent issue. Especially when you have a good idea but the previous one was just some dumb movie no one gets to see the end.
Hi Anne. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.
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Expand postHi Anne. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.
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