I can't stop laughing.
See, there are many other bloggin' screenwriters out there, trying to help each other out. I was trying to compile a list of my favorite people and post it here. Only I got startrekked... erm, sidetracked.
Too bad we just missed the deadline for "the First Ever John August Scene Challenge", but you can witness the results here.
And yes: Shane is right!
I say, let's keep an eye on “John August, screenwriter of ‘Go’ and ‘Big Fish,’ whose blog has been a featured screenwriting resource in the New York Times", maybe we can catch the Second John August Scene Challenge?
I'm sure that, if we keep it simple, the guys won't mind our English :)
Friday, March 2, 2007
Shane + Shane's Hand + ...Star Trek?
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4 comments:
I've read the original.
It's good writing. I personally would have a challenge beating that. Not that I wouldn't take the challenge, but it's really not an, ahem, quickie :)
What I'm interested in is dismantling the scene into its parts, revealing the mechanism beneath so I can understand it. That would help for me as example.
This is how i see it: he started giving Shane a want, then a more urgent one, then set back to enjoy the conflict generated by them. He ignited trouble even more by causing a situation that twists Shane's initial aims into a third one, in order for him not to get embarrased in front of his friends.
All in a scene. Not bad at all..
am citit si adaptarile celorlalti la tema, sunt unele absolut geniale! joshua james, sarah, baron von reed sunt meseriasi - respect to that :)
astept cu interes urmatoarea etapa.
you'd have a challenge beating sam's scene? noooo! shane is totally right, a script written in that fashion would get tossed immediately! it's not what it's about, it's how he puts it into words, into the format, really! his errors are too numerous to point out and i'm afraid we can't really take that as textbook material to discuss how and why. (maybe in private? sneaky! :)))
but hey, did you read the winning script? written by a woman, liz! she "switched genres" too!.. that was a great metajoke. i loved her acceptance speech, too! wicked cool!
ok, de acord ca scrisul e intentionat stangaci; vorbeam insa de structura scenei, care e perfect ok. initial am crezut ca asta trebuie imbunatatit, hence the trouble. ok, i got it now. misto exercitiul :)
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