Go Into The Story

Cameron and Rose, let me add this:

“Cuz’ dat Niggah Coon, Gator Bait, Spade, Spook, Sambo, Spear Flippin’, Jungle Bunny, Mississippi Wind Chime…Detective is Ron Stallworth…

Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 379th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…

Script Analysis: “BlacKkKlansman” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.

Interview (Part 6): Wenonah Wilms

My interview with the 2018 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

TED Talk (Part 10): J.J. Abrams

In 2007, J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Super 8) gave a TED Talk. I’m sure many of you have seen it. However, like many great presentations…

Daily Dialogue — February 16, 2019

“He’s going to put his teaspoon down, dip his finger in the sugar, turn around slowly, and speak to me.”

Rose and Cameron, you’ve zeroed in on what I think is the central theme of the story: Who am I?

Similarly, Flip has to confront his Jewishness and consider how that may / may not play into his own psychological journey.

Again thanks, Cameron and Rose.

Protagonist: Ron and as a secondary Protagonist Flip.

Thanks, Cameron and Rose, for you comprehensive takes on the story’s sequence structure.

The meta take is this story has a classic Beginning — Middle — End. This is a Hero’s Journey with a twist in which we can follow both Ron…

Script Analysis: “BlacKkKlansman” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.

Interview (Part 5): Wenonah Wilms

My interview with the 2018 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

TED Talk (Part 9): J.J. Abrams

In 2007, J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Super 8) gave a TED Talk. I’m sure many of you have seen it. However, like many great presentations…

Daily Dialogue — February 15, 2019

GZA: Want some tea? RZA: Yea, splash me. GZA: It’s all herbals, man. No caffeine. RZA: That’s what I’m talking about. No caffeine. Caffeine…

Script Analysis: “BlacKkKlansman” — Part 4: Themes

Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.

Interview (Part 4): Wenonah Wilms

My interview with the 2018w Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

Go Into The Story Master Class in Paris

For any Europe-based GITS fans, I will be leading a three-day immersion in character driven screenwriting in Paris — March 20–22, 2019.

The Business of Screenwriting: There’s a green light…

I’m attending a fundraiser for my son’s elementary school. It’s an alternative private school on the Westside, an institution that prides…

Daily Dialogue — February 14, 2019

“Here you go, boys. Good Morning, America.”

Script Analysis: “BlacKkKlansman” — Part 3: Characters

Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.

Interview (Part 3): Wenonah Wilms

My interview with the 2018 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

TED Talk (Part 8): J.J. Abrams

In 2007, J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Super 8) gave a TED Talk. I’m sure many of you have seen it. However, like many great presentations…

Script To Screen: “Panic Room”

From the 2002 thriller Panic Room, written by David Koepp.

Daily Dialogue — February 13, 2019

Mr. Wolfe: Jimmy. Jimmy: Uh-huh. Mr. Wolfe: Do me a favor. Thought I smelled some coffee back there. Would you make me cup? Jimmy: Uh…

Cameron, I echo your sentiments.

Real life doesn’t often lay out in three acts, but what the screenwriters did with BlacKkKlansman is find a solid Beginning / Middle / End…

Script Analysis: “BlacKkKlansman” — Part 2: Plot

Read the Oscar-nominated screenplay and analyze it this week.