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The more beats in a sequence, the greater its arch, the better: change produces engagement. That is what happens in Rush (written by Peter Morgan), in the meet cute between Niki Lauda and his future…
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Pure drama, in stories and life, is when what one believed to be true, valuable and praiseworthy, suddenly turns out to be false, wrong and blamable. The pressure (thus, drama) is then almost unbearable. A…
How do you improve a scene? Here is an example from American Sniper. The meet cute between navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) and his future wife Taya (Sienna Miller) in the bar where soldiers…
They say that screenwriting is like problem solving. A good scene is the result of a series of problems solved by the writer. An example? Here is how Beau Willimon explains the genesis of the…
Shadowlands, Gladiator, the adaptation of Les Misérables, are few of Nicholson’s scripts. William Nicholson is an insanely talented screenwriter, playwright and novelist… As if this wasn’t enough, he is also a great lecturer, witty and…
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