Nov 27 Love12 3 Ways to Make Characters More Dynamic By Anthony Faust Main, Screenwriting 101 Cardboard characters are a screenwriter's worst nightmare. Flat, uninteresting characters make films boring. So how can writers give depth to…Read More
May 01 Love9 Repetition Is The Key To Good Dialogue By Anthony Faust Main, Screenwriting 101 Good dialogue, to channel Winston Churchill, can be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. It can be…Read More
Mar 28 Love7 Life and Death Themes in Screenwriting: An In-Depth Look at MY GIRL (1991) By Anthony Faust Main, Screenwriting 101 Contrast. You see it everywhere. Sweltering summers and frosty winters. Barren deserts and tropical rainforests. There is a cosmic yin-yang…Read More
Mar 13 Love12 5 Plot Point Breakdown: Three Men and a Baby (1987) By Anthony Faust Five Plot Point Breakdowns, Main, Screenwriting 101 Screenplay Genre: Comedy Movie Time: 104 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Architect Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck), cartoonist Michael Kellam (Steve Guttenberg),…Read More
Feb 22 Love6 Psychology in Screenwriting: A Thoughtful Analysis of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) By Anthony Faust Screenwriting 101 They may be two very different subjects, but a closer look reveals how the underpinnings of psychology can be observed…Read More
Jan 18 Love6 Five Plot Point Breakdown: Crocodile Dundee II (1988) By Anthony Faust Five Plot Point Breakdowns, Screenwriting 101 Screenplay Genre: Action/Action/Adventure Movie Time: 112 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Michael J. Dundee (Paul Hogan), known as “Mick”, is living…Read More
Dec 18 Love11 Screenwriting 101: Lessons from Alfred Hitchcock Presents By Anthony Faust Main, Screenwriting 101 Alfred Hitchcock captivated audiences with his deft ability to build suspense. He earned the moniker “The Master of Suspense” by…Read More
Dec 12 Love11 Five Plot Point Breakdown: Romancing the Stone (1984) By Anthony Faust Five Plot Point Breakdowns, Main, Screenwriting 101 Screenplay Genre: Action/Romance Movie Time: 106 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is a romance novelist living in…Read More
Dec 08 Love5 First Ten Pages Breakdown: The Lost Boys (1987) By Anthony Faust First Ten Pages, Main, Screenwriting 101 Screenplay by: Jan Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam Breakdown by: Anthony Faust Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, and Jason Patric star…Read More
Nov 17 Love3 First Ten Pages: Quills (2000) By Anthony Faust Main, Screenwriting 101 Screenplay by: Doug Wright Geoffrey Rush stars as the Marquis de Sade in a screenplay beautifully written by Doug Wright.…Read More