Script Analysis: “Crazy Rich Asians” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the script for the smash hit romantic comedy and analyze it this week.

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: Takeaways.

This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie Crazy Rich Asians. In some ways, today’s exercise is the whole point of the series: What did you take away from the experience of reading and analyzing the script?

Screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, novel by Kevin Kwan.

IMDb plot summary: This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.

You can download a PDF of the script here.

Major kudos to Denise Garcia for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Crazy Rich Asians, go here.

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

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

For Part 3, to read Characters discussion, go here.

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

For Part 5, to read the Dialogue discussion go here.

For more movie scene-by-scene breakdowns, go here.

For the Go Into The Story Script Read and Analysis series archives, go here.

I hope to see you in the RESPONSE section about this week’s script: Crazy Rich Asians.