Script Analysis: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Part 6: Takeaways

A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay.

A week-long analysis of the movie which won 7 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay. Download. Read. Discuss.

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 Everything Everywhere All At Once. 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 Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert.

Plot summary: A universe-jumping laundromat manager takes on the mission of ridding all possible universes of the ultimate evil, which has taken possession of her twenty-something daughter. Along the way she finishes her taxes and saves her marriage.

Here are my takeaways drawn from my daily responses to each article.

Here is the scene where Evelyn and Joy reconcile.

Major kudos to Judith Sears for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown. Many thanks, Judith!

To download a PDF of the breakdown , go 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.

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

To access over 100 analyses of previous movie scripts we have read and discussed at Go Into The Story, go here.