Tag Archives: character development

50 Screenplays: #1, Lady Bird

Posted by Jan 31, 2020 Reviews, Screenplays , , , , , , , , ,
50 Screenplays: #1, Lady Bird

Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. The next time I embark on a major project like this, I won’t start a key segment of it with the most complicated example of the form. Lady Bird‘s script is so complex and dense with wonderful examples of what to […]

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100 Movies: #2, Cake

Posted by Jan 6, 2020 Movies, Reviews , , , , ,

I found out about this movie because I hadn’t yet learned how to work our DVD player well enough to skip the trailers. As I patiently sat through the trailers, waiting to watch Wild (Reese Witherspoon), I saw this one and thought it looked worthy of a library loan. It’s worth a lot more than […]

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