Leaving the Story Chrysalis
Remember back to what you were thinking during There Will Be Blood just after the well has exploded and taken HW’s hearing with it. If you’re anything like me, you […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
An Infinite Case of Deja Vu
Segment 2: Finding the Right Protagonist Now that you’ve determined your theme, and sanded it until it will fit on an average sized bumper sticker, what do you do next? […]
Inside Llewyn Davis
I read the script for this movie over a year ago. I did not like it at all. I thought it was a mediocre effort from brothers with more writing […]
A Misfiring Buick in Toledo
On Objection Two aka The Heisenberg’s Matrices Objection This objection turns on the idea that life is random or: Nothing happens for a reason. But wait… isn’t that a… theme. […]
The Primacy of Theme
Part One: A Theoretical Approach Segment 1 It All Starts With Theme Part one of this essay will focus on designing a set of tools that will march your script […]
Bowdlerizing Kant
A (screen)Writer’s Groundwork Introduction: The following essay is divided into three parts: Part One: A Theoretical Approach Part Two: A Practical Approach Part Three: An Experimental Approach Part One isolates […]
Searching for Charlie Kaufman 