Script To Screen: “The Crying Game”
The escape attempt in The Crying Game (1992), written by Neil Jordan.
The escape attempt in The Crying Game (1992), written by Neil Jordan.
Setup: A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier’s world.
Here is the scene from the movie:
This caps off “The Imprisoned” sequence in which Jody slowly but surely creates a connection with Fergus which, as it turns out, was all about looking for one moment of the captor’s weakness… for an escape attempt.
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 series on Go Into The Story where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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