Script To Screen: “Magnolia”
From the 1999 movie Magnolia written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, a multilinear story involving multiple characters.
From the 1999 movie Magnolia written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, a multilinear story involving multiple characters.
Setup: What can one say? A variety of characters leading up to a precipitous moment in each of their lives and then…
Here is the scene from the movie:
I’ll see you in comments for a discussion of this scene from Magnolia.
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.