Script Analysis: “Jojo Rabbit” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read the script for the award-winning film 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 Taika Waititi, based upon the book ‘Caging Skies’ by Christine Leunens.

Plot Summary: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler , Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

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

Major kudos to Gareth Boucher for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Jojo Rabbit, 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.

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I hope to see you in the RESPONSE section about this week’s script: Jojo Rabbit, one of two most favorite movies in 2019 along with Parasite.