Script Analysis: “Hustlers” — Part 6: Takeaways

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: Takeaways.

This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie Hustlers. 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 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.

Write a RESPONSE and let me know what your takeaways have been from the script for Hustlers.

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.

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 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.