Script To Screen: “Up”
From the 2009 Pixar movie Up, screenplay by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, story by Peter Docter and Bob Peterson & Thomas McCarthy, the…
From the 2009 Pixar movie Up, screenplay by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, story by Peter Docter and Bob Peterson & Thomas McCarthy, the Carl and Ellie married life sequence.
Here is the sequence from the movie:
You will notice how closely the finished product mirrors what’s in the script. That’s because for animated movies, there is no room for improvisation once the script is locked.
The amazing thing is the progression of the narrative, how it details Ellie’s life and death, yet does so in such an honest, authentic way, it does not lapse into melodrama.
This sequence is one of the highlights of the Pixar oeuvre.
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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