Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Nightmare Alley”
A week-long analysis of the thriller script and movie. Download. Read. Discuss.
A week-long analysis of the thriller script and movie. Download. Read. Discuss.
This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie Nightmare Alley, screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan, novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Plot summary: A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him.
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
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Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.
Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.