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How Not to Write a Screenplay

Inspired by this post, I thought I’d share some tried-and-true methods for not writing your screenplay:

Agonize over your script’s title.

Start a pointless argument on Twitter.

Decide you need to do more research. Fall down a Wikipedia hole and forget what you were doing.

Change your screenwriting software.

Wait for your manager/agent/friend/reader to email you back.

Make more coffee; you need…

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Smartass Photographer! http://ift.tt/1gcYJhp

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Terrific Stove

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"Macau is a city of contradictions. It’s a classical Portuguese colonial city and a bustling gambling metropolis. It’s industrial yards give way to golf courses. Cobblestone alleyways empty into billion-dollar hotel casinos. It’s brick and ivy streets are packed with rusted bicycles and brand new Lamborghinis. Scooters zip around limousines. It’s wealth seemed ephemeral— money seemed to rise up through the cracks in the pavement.There were cathedrals next to casinos, night markets next to nightclubs, and slum hostels next to five-star hotels. I couldn’t help but stare at it. It was like Las Vegas had emerged from Lisbon. It was like the Monte Carlo had been built on Tsim Sha Tsui. The whole city lived a double life. Even the poorest neighborhood seems to shimmer like gold. 

"In a twisted sort of way, I felt right at home." -Excerpt from Vanishing Games, coming August 2014.

Image credit: “My Town. My City.” by Antonius L. (http://500px.com/photo/53402060).

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Orosn Welles' The Way To Santiago script... HIS face fills the frame...

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The Writers Guild Foundation put on an exhibit at the Austin Film Festival — where Vince Gilligan was honored — and as a treat to the Breaking Bad diehards they put the screenplay to the Breaking Bad series finale, “Felina,” on display for all to glance over. [Uproxx]

These scripts are here because the only way to learn how to write a TV script is to read A LOT of other TV scripts, and there aren’t many places you can do that. (NOTE: For educational purposes only)

Breaking Bad 1x01 — The Pilot

Breaking Bad 3x01 — No Mas

Breaking Bad 3x03 — IFT

Breaking Bad 3x08 — I See You

For further reading and watching:

When Charlie Brooker met Vince Gilligan: a Breaking Bad Masterclass at the 38th annual Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival

Inside the Breaking Bad Writers’ Room and a glimpse at storylines not pursued

The Writers’ Room Episode 1, Season 1

After six years and 62 episodes, Vince Gilligan reminisces with Glen Mazzara about Breaking Bad

Inside the Breaking Bad writers’ room: how Vince Gilligan runs the show

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The Taxi Driver Idea came from...

(from http://www.contactmusic.com/news/paul-schrader-dreamed-up-taxi-driver-predicament-in-hospital_1207040)

Paul Schrader - Paul Schrader Dreamed Up Taxi Driver Predicament In Hospital

by WENN | 11 March 2011

Hollywood screenwriter Paul Schrader came up with the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic Taxi Driver as he lay in a hospital bed suffering from a painful ulcer.

Schrader was 26 and homeless when he began work on the project and admits his own desperate and lonely circumstances fuelled the development of Robert De Niro's iconic character, Travis Bickle.

But the idea to make Bickle a New York City cab driver only came to Schrader while he was receiving urgent medical care.

He tells WENN, "It was written as a form of therapy. I was in a dark and desperate place. This character (Travis Bickle) was starting to take over my life so I felt I had to write so I would be healthy.

"I was not a screenwriter at that time, I was a film critic. I had been living in my car drifting around and I went to the hospital and I had a bleeding ulcer at the age of 26. When I was in the hospital this metaphor occurred to me of the taxi cab, this idea of this man in his metal car floating through the sewers of the city, who seems to be in the middle of society but in fact is desperately in love.

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I don't tip, I don't believe in tipping (Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs).

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GOODFELLAS LONG TAKE

"What do you do?"

"I'm in construction"

"I don't feel you're in construction"

"I'm a union delegate"

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«Yeah, I still gamble. But I have a rule: whatever happens, after 45 minutes, I quit» (Michael Douglas talking about Last Vegas).

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Russell Crowe To Star In Gabriele Muccino-Helmed ‘Fathers And Daughters’ For Voltage

BREAKING: Voltage Films has set Russell Crowe to star in the Gabriele Muccino-directed Fathers And Daughters, which instantly establishes this film as a ho

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The Plausibles: The Problems of Make-Believe in the Age of Reason by Peet Gelderblom

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Alfred Hitchcock called The Plausibles those who can't suspend their disbelief watching a movie: «Aside from the waste of time, they make for gaps and flaws in the picture. Let's be logical if you're going to analyze everything in terms of plausibility and credibility, then no fiction can stand up to that approach, and you wind up doing a documentary.»

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See you in Anotha Life, Brotha!

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One More Kiss Dear

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Elaborate crane shot to catch the murderer - Hitchcock's Young and Innocent