Script To Screen: “Halloween”
Here is a whopper of a Final Struggle from the 1978 Halloween, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill.
Here is a whopper of a Final Struggle from the 1978 Halloween, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill.
Setup: After a night filled with terror being stalked by crazed killer Michael Myers, babysitter Laurie tends to her wards, and then…
Here is the scene from the movie:
One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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