Script To Screen: “Pi”
An unforgettable scene from the 1998 movie Pi, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, story by Darren Aronofsky & Sean Gullette & Eric…
An unforgettable scene from the 1998 movie Pi, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, story by Darren Aronofsky & Sean Gullette & Eric Watson.
Plot summary: A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Here is the scene in the movie:
A mere eight lines of scene description. Nearly two minutes of screen time. Speaks to the importance of pacing. And this is a moment where we need time on screen to feel our way into and through the moment.
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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