Script Analysis: ‘Rocketman’ — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the script for the award-winning film and analyze it 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 Rocketman. 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 Lee Hall.

Plot Summary: A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years.

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

Major kudos to John Klein for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Rocketman, 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.

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I hope to see you in the RESPONSE section about this week’s script: Rocketman.