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Subject: Crafty Screenwriting (summary essay) Author: Katherine Justus [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:13:25 04/29/04 Thu “Crafty Screenwriting,” by Alex Epstein is about how movies get made. Epstein explains that in order for a movie to be made, you need to create a hook that suspense’s the audience. Epstein wrote that a movie doesn’t need a great hook to be made into a movie. He says that in order for a hookless picture to get made, you need certain elements that will entice the audience. A hookless picture is a picture without a hook. “If you have big elements, you make a big movie; small elements, small movie.” Epstein gave several examples of a hookless picture. One of these examples Epstein gave, was the movie: Schindler’s List with Steven Spielberg. This movie was about a Nazi Party member that saved the Jews during the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg ‘hasn’t had a flop for a while, so he’s a bankable element’. Another part of screenwriting is the dialogue. In screenwriting, you need the dialogue to keep the audience engaged in the movie. Epstein expressed that a dialogue was over 100 pages of paper bounded together—book-like—ready to be made into a picture. As Epstein puts in lovely words: write from your soul. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Crafty Screenwriting (summary essay) David Kim 21:38:41 04/29/04 Thu