Script To Screen: “The Kids Are All Right”
A scene from the 2010 movie The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko, who also directed, and Stuart Blumberg.
A scene from the 2010 movie The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko, who also directed, and Stuart Blumberg.
IMDb Plot Summary: Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their father into their family life.
Laser’s mothers are curious about what’s going on with their son. They are in for a shock.
Here is the final part of the scene from the movie:
When I write a scene, I ask a series of questions, one of them being, “What is the point of the scene?” Here, the point is to reveal that Laser has met with Paul, his sperm donor father. That provides the answer to another question: “What type of scene is it?” I would look at this as a Revelation Scene which is why the writers structured it to build to the revelation.
Remember: Read Scripts! It’s one major key to learning the craft of screenwriting.
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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