Script To Screen: “L.A. Confidential”
The 1997 movie L.A. Confidential won two Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson…
The 1997 movie L.A. Confidential won two Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson, based on a novel by James Ellroy.
Setup: A scene from Act One of the movie that sets the tone of police violence.
Here is the scene from the movie:
I’ll see you in comments for a discussion of this gripping scene from L.A. Confidential.
One of the 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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