Script to Screen: “Jerry Maguire”

A fired sports agent… a goldfish… and a personal assistant make a defiant, if awkward exit.

Here is a memorable scene from the screenplay Jerry Maguire, written by Cameron Crowe.

Setup: Jerry has been fired from his job at a big sports agency. Dorothy has been impressed by an earlier “manifesto” Jerry had written.

And now for the scene in 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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