Script To Screen: “Notting Hill”
A scene from the 1999 movie Notting Hill, written by Richard Curtis.
A scene from the 1999 movie Notting Hill, written by Richard Curtis.
Setup: Anna joins William and a group of friends for dinner who agree to give the last brownie to the person who is the “saddest act”.
Here is the movie version of the scene:
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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