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March 5, 2018 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Antagonist

From spec to film: ‘The Post’

From spec to shooting script, from first draft to movie…a long journey. Metaphor aside, and in concrete terms of screenwriting, the distance consists of many drafts and many changes to the story. To improve it.…

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March 17, 2016 Published by: Paolo Braga Posted in: Dialogue

The appeal of negotiation in movies

Negotiation is good material for screenwriters and it has inspired beautiful scenes (just think of the opening scene in The Godfather, where Bonasera begs Don Vito to revenge his daughter’s honor for him). Why are…

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