Should you ever do it? C’mon… seriously? The answer is FUCK yeah. Let me bow to my betters, first some thoughts on the subject by Jim Jarmusch, appropriately stolen/borrowed from a pal’s Facebook entry: Please understand, I’m not advocating plagiarism. Plagiarists are stunningly UN-original. I’m advocating, like Jarmusch, something more akin to re-interpretation. Old school […]
IMDBunking
August 11, 2012
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Want to see something depressing? Look at this… Biography for Paul Peditto at IMDbPro » Trivia His play, “Never Come Morning” at the Prop Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work. His adaptation of “1,001 Afternoons in Chicago,” at the Live Bait Theater and Prop Theatre Group was […]
Film School Booby Traps
August 5, 2012
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Being Professor Pauly, I see a lot of student films. The filmmakers change but, even as some succeed because of vision and originality, others die the death in absolutely painful fashion, because the makers of these films fell victim to a few booby traps that you’d think would be easy to avoid, yet can blow […]
Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man
July 28, 2012
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Long story short: Between the years of 18 and 22 I wrote a million words. It was the beginning of my life as a scribbler, a journal that covered my last years in Westchester County, my college years in Ithaca, New York, and London circa ’79 to ’81. The million words was written on long […]
The Parenthetical Hater
July 20, 2012
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Write in camera angles, your script won’t get read past page 1 by any professional reader. This is kindergarten stuff. Even my freshman at Columbia know enough not to do it. You don’t tell the director how to direct. Period. So why the confusion around parentheticals? When you write a parenthetical, you’re telling the actor […]
