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Posted: March 7th, 2025, 12:52pm Report to Moderator
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I just noticed the link to the script for Anora on the home page here.  I opened it just to see what the Oscar winner for "Best Original Screenplay" might look like and low and behold!  That opening scene set up! OMG! How many times have I been lambasted for "way too dense", "no more than 4 lines", "I would never read that", etc. etc.

And that won the Oscar!  I stand vindicated in my wordiness!  (Ya'll know I'm just kidding but I thought it deserved a shout out)  

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Where's the respect for the white page?! No dialogue till P3. I've read longer (better written) James Bond action intros . . . . .  I struggled to get 20 odd pages into the Spanish film. The "English version" is in Spanish with very very very small English subtitles translations.
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Quoted from kcranford
I just noticed the link to the script for Anora on the home page here.  I opened it just to see what the Oscar winner for "Best Original Screenplay" might look like and low and behold!  That opening scene set up! OMG! How many times have I been lambasted for "way too dense", "no more than 4 lines", "I would never read that", etc. etc.

And that won the Oscar!  I stand vindicated in my wordiness!  (Ya'll know I'm just kidding but I thought it deserved a shout out)  


This is a working draft, but the action line construction is mostly simple and solid. It sets the scene without bogging the reader down in trivial nonsense, such as unnecessary character description (and most character description in scripts is unnecessary). I personally would have thinned it a little, but that's just me.

I quit reading and start skimming when it looks like this:


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INT. HEADQUARTERS (MANHATTAN) - NIGHT

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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious elitist honorificabilitudinitatibus magnificence thyroparathyroidectomized
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DB, make your point a bit briefer.


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Quoted from LC
DB, make your point a bit briefer.

If it was briefer there'd be no reason for me to quit reading and begin skimming. Which is kind of my point.



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Please DO NOT run Drongo's post in machine code as it will expose Clearview AI to the general public !
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