Tuesday, February 16, 2010

USA Today, of all places, has an article full of links to all the Oscar-nominated screenplays. Check'em out. What did you learn?

Labels: reading

7:46 AM

2 Comments:

The following list shows how you can break "screenwriting rules" on page 1 and still get an Oscar Nomination:

In the Loop:
Sloppy punctuation and spelling errors from page 2 onwards

A Single Man:
“George is walking in the snow…” Lots of present continuous here.

A Serious Man:
Times New Roman, non-standard format, Uses camera directions esp. ‘angle’, We cut down to street level, etc.

The Last Station:
“In the distance we can hear voices…”

Avatar:
Voiceover is king of the world!

An Education:
12-line action block. Hornby’s a novelist, eh.

The White Ribbon:
Starts with present continuous and uses “we see,” “we hear”, etc., throughout the first page.

Precious:
One “we see” on the first page, but it is especially awful: “Here, for the first time, we see…”

Coraline:
CAMERA and WIDE ANGLE ON

The Hurt Locker:
“We approach…” is used once.

The Blind Side:
“We’re watching…”

Inglourious Basterds:
“We read a subtitle…”


There were no errors at the beginning of Crazy Heart.

By  yyyyyyyyy, at 9:53 PM  

That was really funny. Genius, even. Good thing I've never come even close to one of those numbers. (In this lifetime of course.)

By  Unknown, at 1:32 AM  

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