Script Analysis: “Hustlers” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read the script for the surprise hit comedy crime drama and analyze all 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: Dialogue.

Screenplay by Lorene Scafaria based on a magazine article by Jessica Pressler.

Plot Summary: A crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

Head to RESPONSES and let me know what dialogue in the script made the most impact on you.

Major kudos to Priya Gopal for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Hustlers, go here.

To read the New York magazine article the movie was based on, 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.

To access over 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: Hustlers.