An excerpt from an email I just sent: “By the way, Aristotle’s POETICS is absolutely NOT an easy read, so when you hear Crag Mazin [a pretty successful Hollywood writer] say that, just know he’s lying to you! … unless you are already an expert on Ancient Greek society, dithyrambic poetry, and music of the lyre. Then it’s a breeze.” #Writing#ScreenWriting#Filmmaking
@WTL I was actually talking about just that podcast, and exactly that episode. Craig recommends reading Poetics, and that’s when he says, “It’s an easy read. You’ll finish it in about half an hour,” then calls it, “a good bathroom book.” 😂 Not one bit of that is true!!!
"At the end of the film, I had to smile, recognizing how Shyamalan has essentially ditched a payoff. He knows, as we all sense, that payoffs have grown boring. The mechanical resolution of a movie's problems is something we sit through at the end, but it's the setup and the buildup that keep our attention."
@ShaulaEvans@film this. you understand the importance of sound. From independent films to sonic masterpieces, sound and the way its used makes the experience more than how it looks IMO.
I did check the earth phase on the moon when I wrote a one-off soul travel short story that takes place in part on the moon. The date is an important element in the story..
Will anyone else ever check the weather to be sure it was, in fact, nice? No.
Holy crap! 😳 Slowly catching up on the @adventurex recordings when this talk by Christopher Morrison just flipped my (novice) understanding of "Story" upside down! 🙃
Click play & enjoy the ride... 😅 #GameDev#Screenwriting https://youtu.be/oH51Rxi9nS4
Just submitted a sketch about President Cleveland coming out of retirement to be a running mate for 45. In doing research for it I have at least tripled my knowledge of Grover Cleveland 😝