Script Analysis: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read the screenplay for the hit animated movie and analyze it this 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
Friday: Characters
Saturday: Themes
Sunday: Dialogue
Monday: Takeaways

Today: Dialogue.

You may download a PDF of the script here.

Screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, story by Phil Lord.

IMDb plot summary: Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.

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

Kudos to Halil Akgündüz for doing the scene-by-scene breakdown.

To download a PDF of the breakdown for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, click here.

For Part 1, to read the Scene-By-Scene Breakdown discussion, go here.

For Part 2, to read the Major Plot Points discussion, go here.

For Part 3, to read the Characters discussion, go here.

For Part 4, to read the Themes discussion go here.

To access 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: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.