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Posted by: Don, September 6th, 2015, 12:56pm
Y by Fausto Lucignani - Sci Fi, Thriller - After the atrocious death of her father, a Jewish doctor struggles against Nazi bioterrorists to thwart the 21st Century Holocaust.  122 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: vancety, September 10th, 2015, 11:13am; Reply: 1
Ok, let's see if you can surprise me by writing a modern "The Boys from Brazil". Going to read this...
Posted by: eldave1, September 10th, 2015, 11:58am; Reply: 2
Hey Fausto: tried to get through it - but there are issue right from the start.


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FADE IN:
NEW YORK CITY, 2015


No sure what this is - am I looking downtown? At a street? Is this suppose to be a SUPER?

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INT. HOSPITAL - MORNING

The nurses station in the INFECTIOUS DISEASES floor bustles
with medical personnel.


Make the scene heading more specific so you don't have to establish it in the first line of action.

INT. HOSPITAL/INFECTIOUS DISEASES FLOOR - DAY


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An Hispanic-American NURSE (30) SPEAKS on a PA system.
(She speaks English with a Spanish accent).

THE NURSE
Doctor GOLD, to Infectious Diseases.
Doctor GOLD, to Infectious Diseases.


She is NURSE - not THE NURSE and where is she? Is she speaking at a nurse's station? - if so - describe that or wherever it is she is speaking from.


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INT. NURSES STATION - MINUTES LATER

Doctor ESTHER GOLD, dark-brown hair, acutely attractive in
her early 40s, stands facing a SENIOR NURSE, grayish hair,
plump, (50).


You don't need the minutes later and now we have a nurses station - set that up front. ANd - I'm confused - was the first nurse not at a station and was just a V.O through a P.A - if so, you need to indicate that. If not, why is Esther talking to someone other than the nurse that paged her.


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ESTHER
What's the emergency.


typo - question mark missing.


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THE SENIOR NURSE
An man has just been admitted. He's
vomiting blood and has high fever.


Typo - A man.

Okay - I'm out early on this one. There is some clean up needed.
Posted by: CameronD, September 10th, 2015, 12:10pm; Reply: 3
I'm one of those annoying people who make comments without reading scripts. Sorry. I'm at work and just don't have the time. But your title jumped out at me for the wrong reasons. I thought I'd take a look at the logline to see if there was a reason you named your script after a letter of the alphabet. But I don't see why. (no pun intended)

Unless there is a very key part of your script focused on the letter Y I would advice you to look at a different title. It's not the best title.  
Posted by: Scar Tissue Films, September 11th, 2015, 8:43am; Reply: 4
You sure it's not got something to do with the Y chromosome or something?

EDIT: Quick scan of the script shows it is.
Posted by: CameronD, September 11th, 2015, 9:39am; Reply: 5
Ok, I'm an idiot. (And no biology expert) I take it back. My apologies. Just wanted to make sure it fit.
Posted by: TonyDionisio, September 11th, 2015, 10:31am; Reply: 6
WHy are there 11 pages of blank at the end of this PDF?
Posted by: vancety, September 12th, 2015, 5:41am; Reply: 7
Read 10 pages. Sorry Fausto, I think this could be a good story looking at the logline but somehow the writing does not pull me in. It has a clinical feel to it. Maybe it's too on the nose, I don't know...
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