Script Analysis: “After the Wedding” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read and analyze the script for the acclaimed drama mystery starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, and Billy Crudup.

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this bi-weekly series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our daily schedule:

Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Tuesday: Plot
Wednesday: Characters
Thursday: Themes
Friday: Dialogue
Saturday: Takeaways

Today: Dialogue.

Written by Bart Freundlich.

Plot Summary: A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a benefactor. A mystery unfolds as secrets are revealed.

Major kudos to Nikhil Kamkolkar or doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for After the Wedding, click here.

For Part 1, to read the Scene-By-Scene Breakdown discussion, go here.

For Part 2, to read the Plot discussion, go here.

For Part 3, to read the Character discussion, go here.

For Part 4, to read the Themes discussion go here.

To access over 80 analyses of previous movie scripts we have read and discussed at Go Into The Story, go here.

I hope to see you in the RESPONSE section about this week’s script: After the Wedding.