Here’s Part Two of famous movies with serious character arcs. I point these out not to say that the characters in each of your scripts HAVE to make such journeys, only that you should define the journey. Where does the character arc begin (Point A/ORDER), where does it change (Point P/CHAOS), and where does it […]
The generic term character arc is something you might hear coming from your agent, at a story development meeting, or from your damn Columbia College part-time instructor. They can’t figure out what’s not clicking so out comes the cure-all: Your lead character hasn’t explored the full range of character arc. But what the hell […]
“THE IDEAL LOW-BUDGET MOVIE IS SET IN THE PRESENT. FEW SHOTS, LOTS OF INTERIORS, A COUPLE OF SPEAKING ACTORS (UNKNOWNS), NO MAJOR OPTICAL EFFECTS, NO HORSES TO FEED. BUNCH OF NOT-IN-THE-GUILD TEENS RUNNING AROUND AN OLD HOUSE WITH A DUDE IN A HOCKEY MASK CHASING AND SKEWERING THEM.”—JOHN SAYLES There are no absolutes. For each […]
Niki Nikita That’s not her real name. Her real name still inspires fear. This, the woman with two Tony Awards on the mantle place of her upper-east side apartment. This, the woman who produced Jane Doe, taking a rough-and-raw true story about drug addiction and turning it a perfectly charming, and soulless, Lifetime movie. The […]
Nobody wants to be Alan Smithee Resignation… Defeat… No fun at all. When you see this name it speaks to a soul-sucking experience so bad that it caused the Director to take his name off the movie. I wanted to use Allen Smithee on Jane Doe. I had to be talked out of it. The […]
