DAY 17 – MOVIES I LOVE!

A screenwriter must watch movies. Here are ten movies I love [and more to come]: 1. A Man and a Woman - Claude Lelouch’s Masterpiece 2. Crash – Great Ensemble Piece 3. Tootsie – Fun! 4. Thelma & Louise – A must to study character development. 5. Ghost – Drama/Comedy – It so works! 6. [...]

DAY 18 – MORE MOVIES I LOVE!

Here are ten more: 1. Nottinghill 2. The Bourne Identity 3. Before Sunrise 4. Before Sunset [If you can watch 3 and 4 as one long movie… needs popcorn! And I give the last scene of Sunset the best ‘Last Scene Award’. 5. The Departed 6. The Shawshank Redemption 7. Out of Africa 8. Titanic [...]

DAY 39 – NAMING YOUR CHARACTER

I give a lot of thought into naming my main characters. The names I choose need to speak to me. They have to sound a certain way, and more often then not they need to have a certain meaning that translates into character behavior. For example in Witness [by the way, a great movie and [...]

DAY 51 – BOX OFFICE AND THE VOW

This week’s box office once again shows us that not every movie needs a strong script in order to succeed. Really, seriously, ‘The Vow’! This could easily been my kind of movie, but it didn’t. The dialogue was flat and the characters did very little to fall in love. We all knew that they would [...]