Review: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Shooting Script: 9/8/81)
This draft of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is an excellent starter script for beginners in screenplay studies. In many ways it is the quintessential shooting script, containing lots of revisions, added...
View ArticleCameron Crowe releases deleted and extended script scenes from ‘SAY ANYTHING…’
Over at his official website, Cameron Crowe helps us prove that screenplays are worth studying by releasing a series of deleted and extended script scenes from the final shooting script of Say...
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Review: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Shooting Script: 7/15/68)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is William Goldman’s first original screenplay. A Western script written in the late-1960s, its style and format nevertheless has more in common with the continuities...
View ArticleReview: Unforgiven (Unspecified Shooting Script: 1992)
Unforgiven, originally written by David Webb Peoples in 1976 as The William Munny Killings, effectively flips the moral conventions of the 1950s era classical Western genre (typified by such...
View ArticleMore Screenwriting 2.0
Last August, I blogged about a paper I presented to the University Film and Video Association called, “Teaching the Digital Screenplay and Its Role in Conception and Execution.” In that paper I began...
View ArticleScreenplay as Tech Startup
Today I stumbled upon a Wall Street Journal article from two days ago that began with the following sentence: “It seems like everyone is working on a screenplay these days, and if they’re not working...
View ArticleVertigo ousts Kane, but which is the better screenplay?
After 50 years at the top of Sight & Sound‘s list of all-time greatest films, Citizen Kane has dropped to #2 behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Just for fun I ask, which is the better screenplay?...
View ArticleHarrison Ford’s “Raiders” Script
Cinephilia & Beyond has some excellent page scans of Harrison Ford’s shooting script of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford’s handwritten script analysis notes are evidence of an actor seriously engaged...
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