Script To Screen: “Rocky”
A memorable scene from Rocky written by Sylvester Stallone.
A memorable scene from Rocky written by Sylvester Stallone.
Setup: Rocky Balboa meets Apollo Creed in a heavyweight championship bout and delivers a surprise.
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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