Notes on writing movie scripts

This blog is a notepad of sites, thoughts, and snippets that will help me write a good movie script.

Monday, April 2, 2007

working title: elegy

Opens: Asian airport
checking in: 'can you sit me next to a pretty girl? It makes the flight more interesting!"
.. we'll see...
Cuts to boarding. Hero Protagonist is sitting, and lo! a pretty girl sits besides him.
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Conversation: about reasons for flight.
HP:'I'm going back for.. family reasons.' HP practices being candid in public conversations. ' My father is dying, and it's been years since we've really spoken..'

This movie is scored to the 5th movt of beethovens 7th: the trumpet movement..
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Key scenes and dialogue..
Self-image:
"My heart is in the right place, this I know..."

Scenes: with father:
"I'm turning out just like my father, though I swore I never would. Now I can say I have love for him and I never really understood what it must have been like for him living inside his head. I feel like he's here with me now, even though he's dead." : eels
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Scenes: with mother:
Like stephen daedelus in ulysses :the bit about 'You could've blessed her, for her sake, you godless fenian..etc' Dialogue: 'There's no god waiting for me'

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Being caught in patterns of behaviour, even when the causes for them have disappeared - been forgotten! long ago.

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