Posted in Blogs, Screenwriting, Writing on March 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I want to write a script for a video. The quandary? What to write when you have nothing to write. No ideas. Nada. El zippo. The great big gaping void.
On the upside, it leaves it pretty wide open. I can write whatever I want. Mind you, it’s for a video so someone would have to […]
Posted in Screenwriting, TV on January 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The other day I received my most recent Amazon order - the box set of Seinfeld, seasons 1 through 3. It’s all dressed up in unneccesary unnecessary hoo-hah (playing cards, salt & pepper shakers etc.), and I could live without them. Normally, I wouldn’t have bought this kind of edition.
However … in this case I […]
Posted in Movies, Screenwriting, Writing on August 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’m currently reading Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee. While it’s about screenwriting I’m not really reading it for that, though in a sense I am (excuse the contradiction).
I’m reading it because, in a larger sense, it is about story (hence the title) and I am, and always have […]
Posted in Movies, Screenwriting on August 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
Although this is posted on my other blog, The Burble, it seemed to me it belonged here as well. So …
I’ve been doing a bit of “re-watching” of some all-time favourites, such as The Philadelphia Story, which I ran in the DVD player last night. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen this […]
Posted in General, Movies, Screenwriting on July 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
First, in a world where most movie comedies lack the essential element (humour!), The Matador is a wonderful movie. Dry and stupid, slapstick and witty. Compare to Failure to Launch or The Break-Up and weep. Note to directors: after script, casting is everything.
That I could watch and enjoy a film under these intemperate conditions (33C […]
Posted in Movies, Screenwriting on February 19th, 2006 No Comments »
2001 - directed by Barry Levinson
(3 stars out 5)
Some years ago, maybe around the time of Pulp Fiction, Hollywood developed a new kind of movie genre which I call the chimera. In Greek mythology, the chimera has a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. In other words, it’s a hodge podge. So […]
