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Screenplays: In the Beginning73

Screenplays: In the Beginning

Screenwriting is more than just scenes, characters, goals, opposition...etc. The script you create is the blue-print of "your" story, written in a language understood by the people(dir, prod) ready to turn your idea into a cohesive, compelling film....

0 comments    films editing characters
5 Things These Films Teach Us!68

5 Things These Films Teach Us!

Hello! This is my first foray into Hubpages and I thought I would share some interesting little tidbits about the veracity or authenticity in these following films: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof To be perfectly honest, I just finished watching this film...

1 comment    poetry movies film
Choosing the life of a writer - my experience78

Choosing the life of a writer - my experience

What hope is there in dreaming of things that seem unreachable? There is no hope in anything unless we can dream about it first. The grand realities of life began as invisible dreams in the mind of someone.

5 comments    writing hubpages writers
Local Opportunities Knocking61

Local Opportunities Knocking

Dear Fellow Authors, A little trivia to ponder before we start, did you know that many of the movies we adore and remember were actually adaptations of short stories? · The Wild One Directed by Laslo Benedeck (1954) was an adaptation...

2 comments    filmmaking
How to Write Movie Dialogue78

How to Write Movie Dialogue

Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) from Pulp Fiction... what a memorable character. One of the most intricate elements of screenwriting is the dialogue, in my opinion. There are a myriad of factors to consider for each character. You gotta make them stand...

4 comments    movies writing film
An Interview with Andrew Kevin Walker71

An Interview with Andrew Kevin Walker

Recently, I interviewed my screenwriting colleague and great friend, Andrew Kevin Walker, via telephone from my home in LaPlace, Louisiana. The 47-year-old Walker resides in Los Angeles, California, and he graciously put forth the time and effort...

0 comments    writing publishing screenwriting
The Actor/Screenwriter Scenario64

The Actor/Screenwriter Scenario

Whether you’re in acting school, film school, or writing school, you’ll probably at some point come across a course on screenwriting. For many writers, actors and directors, writing the next great screenplay is their ultimate dream. In acting...

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A Tour of the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in Geyserville, California74

A Tour of the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in Geyserville, California

Located in Sonoma County, California, the Francis Ford Coppola Winery welcomes visitors to its Geyserville location. On any visit, you may run into the famed director of the Godfather Trilogy as he walks the grounds of this fabulous tourist destination or is seen driving his rare Tucker sedan.

8 comments    wine director producer
If I were a screenwriter69

If I were a screenwriter

If I were a screenwriter I'd get out my red pen and makes some edits to the following- The Hangover Part Two, Scream 4, The Proposal, and Funny People. This hub details how I'd trim, tweak, cut and out-and-out rewrite these movies.

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Shel Silverstein:  The Renaissance Man65

Shel Silverstein: The Renaissance Man

"I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you." ~ Shel Silverstein

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