Script Analysis: “Destroyer” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the script for the gritty crime drama 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 Destroyer. 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?

Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.

IMDb plot summary: A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.

You may download a PDF of the script — free and legal — here.

Major kudos to Roo Black for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Destroyer, 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.

To access 70 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: Destroyer.

Onward!