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Posted by: Don, June 28th, 2012, 7:06pm
Only God Can Curse In Heaven! by Stephanie Harris - Comedy - Only God Can Curse in Heaven! Jesus and Satan battle, God and Satan battle, but only God can curse in heaven! 90 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: M.Alexander, June 28th, 2012, 11:10pm; Reply: 1
Stephanie,
On the chance that this is your first attempt at screenwriting I'll be gentle as possible. This script needs a lot of fixing. My advice would be to read other scripts on this site (good ones) and a few screenwriting books. Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier is a good start.
Learn how to "format" a script before you write one. And for the record Jesus and Satan are defnitely not brothers, but that's beside the point. Don't let this criticism discourage you.
You knocked out a ninety page script so that tells me you've got determination. Now you just need education.
Best of luck.
Posted by: ottercat, July 1st, 2012, 10:07am; Reply: 2
Steph,
The formatting needs a lot of work like Alexander states. You also need to cut down dialog to 3 lines. With the right format, some of these would be 20 lines.
GOD
No, your first miracle should be making water into this fine
tasting wine. Now, this I agree on. I like that idea. This is
some good stuff here. (God takes a sip of wine out of his golden
cup and makes a toast) Let me think for a minute. You can’t come
flying through the sky. Absolutely no flying! They will think
you’re the SATAN. You cannot go in a spaceship. They will
worship you and not me. And, if you come already grown and
wealthy, they will accuse you of buying your position. Son, the
only way I can see you going down there and making them
believers, is you would have to be born as a human child.
Also, you do not need to use CAPS in dialog and only use CAPS in slugs when your introducing someone for the first time.
Posted by: Redfly, July 2nd, 2012, 3:20am; Reply: 3
There is little, if nothing else, I can add that hasn't already been suggested. I didn't read much passed the beginning, but I did notice an error I'd like to point out:
JESUS
(Smiles at thought)
FATHER, think about this. If I go down there as a human, do
some unbelievable miracles like; giving the blind site, make
the cripple walk, heal the leopards, and feed 5000 with 2
loaves of bread and 3 fish. They will believe in you as I
believe in you.
I think you meant heal the lepers.
Good luck in your current and future writing endeavors, Stephanie.
Posted by: gridlockd, July 25th, 2012, 7:21pm; Reply: 4
There is little, if nothing else, I can add that hasn't already been suggested. I didn't read much passed the beginning, but I did notice an error I'd like to point out:
JESUS (Smiles at thought) FATHER, think about this. If I go down there as a human, do some unbelievable miracles like; giving the blind site, make the cripple walk, heal the leopards, and feed 5000 with 2 loaves of bread and 3 fish. They will believe in you as I believe in you.
I think you meant heal the lepers.
Good luck in your current and future writing endeavors, Stephanie. |
Also think she means "giving the blind
sight."
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