Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The Lighthouse”
The entire 6 part series delving into the hallucinatory horror movie.
The entire 6 part series delving into the hallucinatory horror movie.
This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie The Lighthouse, written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers.
Plot summary: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Plot
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
Takeaways
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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.