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steven8 |
Posted: April 30th, 2012, 9:36pm |
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Old Timer The Ed Wood of Simply Scripts
LocationBarberton, OH Posts1156 Posts Per Day 0.22 |
When you decided "Hey, maybe writing movies would be even more fun than watching them!", what was the first script you read to find out what it was all about. Also, where did you find it at? If you can remember, that is.
Mine was Chinatown. I purchased it at Borders in book form. I loved the form and the way words were used -- I was hooked on the art of screenwriting. |
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Grandma Bear |
Posted: April 30th, 2012, 9:50pm |
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LocationThe Swamp... Posts7962 Posts Per Day 1.35 |
I bought a real paper copy of Basic Instinct. Loved it better than the film. still have a "few" paper copy scripts, but maybe 7000+ digital ones.
Anyway, don't read that much of those these days. Concentrating my reading on novels. |
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steven8 |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 2:27am |
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Old Timer The Ed Wood of Simply Scripts
LocationBarberton, OH Posts1156 Posts Per Day 0.22 |
I found a script for the X-Files episode Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man for sale at Script Fly. I'm thinking about asking for it as a birthday present. It's my all-time favorite X-Files episode. |
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Baltis. |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 3:40am |
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So long ago, but it was Karate Kid, Creepshow or Labamba... but it was well after I "thought" I could mistakenly write a screenplay. Bought Creepshow, signed by Romero and King for 200 flat. Never had it checked for authenticity -- but the seller had a pic of "a" meeting. The script has served me well over the years so I'm not too bummed if it was forged. I prolly read Karate kid first, but all of them ran together if memory serves. |
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Pii |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 5:57am |
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LocationFinland Posts189 Posts Per Day 0.02 |
I bought the script for Star Wars: Episode 1 in book form. Don't judge me, I wasn't a fan of the movie (or Star Wars in general), but I was just extremely interested in reading a script. Unfortunately I did realise even back then that what I was reading was not the screenplay but a transcript. Very disappointing.
Anyway, it wasn't long after that that I actually gained more regular access to the Interwebs and started reading whole heck of a lot of things. I can't remember what the first things were that I read. Probably some movies that I remembered but hadn't seen in a while and I just tried to experience them again since I didn't have access to them. |
| The act of writing is a quest to put a hundred thousand words to a cunning order. - Douglas Adams |
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Electric Dreamer |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 10:03am |
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LocationLos Angeles Posts2740 Posts Per Day 0.55 |
There was a rare book shop on Newbury Street. My mother used to frequent it when we went into Boston. They had a section for printed/signed screenplays. I thought the was a scam... Because movies were on a screen, not paper. So, I told the owner he shouldn't lie to people like that. Oh yeah, I was 11 at the time. E.D. |
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Mr.Ripley |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 10:52am |
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January Project Group Writing
LocationNew York Posts1979 Posts Per Day 0.30 |
It was actually the Othello play from high school that led me to screenwriting. Read the play and saw the movie with Lawrence Fishborne and Kenneth Branagh. That was when I decided to start writing. |
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Mr. Blonde |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 12:12pm |
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AdministratorWhat good are choices if they're all bad?
LocationNowhere special. Posts3064 Posts Per Day 0.57 |
I didn't start with screenplays. My older brother wrote short stories. There was one in particular, despite its admitted awfulness, that I enjoyed. I wanted to do that story better than he did. But, I wasn't a fan of short stories because they needed details and descriptions.
So, I moved onto plotting out movies. I never wrote any of them because I had no clue how to actually write a screenplay. So, that went on for about four years until I decided to wing it on Word. I did that for another two with disastrous results. Then, I came here. The first script I read, "Sic Semper Tyrannus" (good short, by the way), showed me the general rules of what goes where. I finally got it down when I got Final Draft 7. Been doing that since.
Things came full circle because I ended up teaching my brother the general rules of writing a screenplay, so I guess it all worked out eventually. To this day, though, nine years later, I've never finished my version of my brother's short story. Never even been close. |
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Ledbetter |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 2:19pm |
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The first script I read was...
BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR.
The climax was better on film.
Shawn.....><
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Ectoplasm |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 3:15pm |
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LocationHill Valley Posts102 Posts Per Day 0.02 |
I think my first was an early draft of a Spider-Man film. I found it really interesting how scripts go through so many changes and writers, and we never see just how many drafts or versions come before the finished product. I believe I found the script here and started using this site called scriptbuddy to try my own. |
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Felipe |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 4:10pm |
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LocationLos Angeles, CA Posts437 Posts Per Day 0.10 |
No script in particular got me into screenwriting. I made movies all the time as a kid and movies are actually what I used to learn to speak english without a Brazilian accent.
I went to film school and started off as a director and cinematographer. I always directed my own script so it was pretty much a necessity. It wasn't until last year that I actually quit a shitty job I had in the accounting department of a film company to dedicate more time to writing with a more flexible and less soul-sucking job. |
| 'Artist' is not a term you should use to refer to yourself. Let others, and your work, do it for you. |
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Forgive |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 5:56pm |
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Old Timer Let The Sky Fall
LocationVarious, exotic. Posts1373 Posts Per Day 0.27 |
Yeah - I never read one - I just saw a shit film and went "I can do better than that ... ".
Shorty after realizing I couldn't I got into reading a couple of scripts ...
... first script I ever read? No idea - but the first few where all on this site. Ahh. Get's ya all moist, huh? |
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Posted: May 1st, 2012, 5:57pm |
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Old Timer Let The Sky Fall
LocationVarious, exotic. Posts1373 Posts Per Day 0.27 |
I mean in the eyes not in your underpants ... |
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Ledbetter |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 6:09pm |
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Dude, you're quoting yourself... That's funny shit. Shawn.....>< |
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Forgive |
Posted: May 1st, 2012, 6:27pm |
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Old Timer Let The Sky Fall
LocationVarious, exotic. Posts1373 Posts Per Day 0.27 |
Quoted from Ledbetter Dude, you're quoting yourself...
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Yeah - and that's just got to be so wrong ... |
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