Volunteers Wanted!

Do you have a favorite movie from 2023? Here is an opportunity to dig deeper into why it works: Read that movie’s script and create a scene-by-scene breakdown.

2023 was a helluva year for cinema as there were some terrific movies hitting the silver screen. You have an opportunity both to honor these films and provide a resource for screenwriters, filmmakers, and cinefiles by creating a scene-by-scene breakdown of a movie’s screenplay.

Go Into The Story followers have been doing this for a decade. As a result, there are currently 128 breakdowns which you can access here.

This an example:

To participate in this initiative, you can choose from any of these movie screenplays:

Air (Amazon MGM)

All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)

American Fiction (Amazon MGM)

Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)

Are You There, God. It’s Me, Margaret. (Lions Gate Films)

Asteroid City (Focus Features)

Barbie (Warner Bros.)

BlackBerry (IFC Films)

Bottoms (Amazon MGM)

The Burial (Amazon MGM)

Cassandro (Amazon MGM)

The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)

Creed III (Amazon MGM)

Dream Scenario (A24)

Dumb Money (Sony Pictures)

Eileen (Neon)

Elemental (Disney)

Fair Play (Netflix)

Ferrari (Neon)

Fingernails (Apple Studios)

Flamin’ Hot (Searchlight Pictures)

Flora and Son (FilmNation Entertainment)

Foe (Amazon MGM)

Freud’s Last Session (Sony Classics)

A Haunting in Venice (Disney)

The Holdovers (Miramax)

The Iron Claw (A24)

John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lions Gate)

Jules (Bleeker Street)

The Killer (Netflix)

Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Studios)

Landscape with Invisible Hand (Amazon MGM)

Maestro (Netflix)

May December (Netflix)

Memory (Ketchup Entertainment)

A Million Miles Away (Amazon MGM)

The Miracle Club (Sony Classics)

Napoleon (Apple Studios)

Nimona (Annapurna Pictures)

Nyad (Netflix)

Oppenheimer (Universal)

Origin (Neon)

The Persian Version (Sony Classics)

Poor Things (Searchlight)

Priscilla (A24)

Rustin (Netflix)

Saltburn (Amazon MGM)

Shayda (Sony Classics)

Shortcomings (Sony Classics)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia)

The Teacher’s Lounge (Sony Classics)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)

Wonka (Warner Bros.)

The Zone of Interest (A24)

Each link enables you to legally download that movie’s screenplay.

What do you get from volunteering to do a scene-by-scene breakdown?

• An acknowledgement in a Go Into The Story article featuring your breakdown
• Inclusion in the Go Into The Story archive
• A deeper understanding of your favorite movie as well as an expanded grasp of screenplay structure

If you are interested in volunteering to read one of the above screenplays and create a scene-by-scene breakdown, please respond to this article and let me know which script you wish to read and break down.

This archive is an invaluable resource for the online screenwriting universe. Plus, there is the good karma you receive from sharing your time and effort creating a script breakdown.

Thanks in advance for participating in this annual effort.