Hey everyone! I am a new screenwriter, and I have been reading some screenplays comprised of sequences that have no specific scenes defined....
[IMG] Scuffed shoes in closeup tell almost the whole story—things are very much 'run down at the heels' for Logan these days, Plus the way he...
[IMG] I'm doing research now on the Logan and Jessica Jones analyses, and I've read a bit of the book detailing the connection with mythology....
[IMG] The Dual Self At the simplest level a superhero is two different people because they have a secret self (the superhero). They live as an...
[IMG] When I first joined this message board, I had just finished watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the series, from beginning to end. I think...
Watching Halloween for October fright-fest. This is notes toward a movie analysis, so it contains spoilers, for several slasher flicks. It all...
[IMG] I did a few posts about it back in the Hodgepodge thread, but now I want to devote some time and energy to really digging into it. And I'll...
Close Encounters is really the story of Little Stevie Speilberg getting swept up from his ordinary life and into the exciting world of Hollywood....
[IMG] What I mean is that they're chimerae or hybrids, symbolic combinations of various animals, sometimes fused with the human. In mythology...
I read the first few pages of my WF blog last night, all about Poetic Film and Theater of the Absurd. So deeply inspiring. I need to just write...
[IMG] Using the blog as a notebook to keep some interesting things I've run across. Passages from The Philosophy of Neo-Noir: "Everything takes...
[IMG] I've seen many Films Noir now, and read several articles. I was thinking through the themes and how they relate to the sociological trends...
[IMG] I seem to be swinging into a Film Noir phase now. It started a month or so ago when I got Body Heat, the William Hurt movie from the 80's....
One of them anyway, but it's a real doozy: [MEDIA] This guy inspired me to learn how to do film analysis of my own and to look beneath the surface...
I think one of the reasons The Exorcist is so effective goes by unnoticed because the attention is on the effects and the insane things happening...
[MEDIA] How did I not see this when I watched the show? I guess I wasn't so well-versed in symbolism at the time, especially reading it in movies...
[MEDIA] One of them is a filmmaker and one a therapist, so this stuff is right up my alley. They don't concentrate on symbolism much, so it's...
I should have known this, but of course the analysis keeps growing as ideas develop and connect up. It's going to be too big to post it all here...
I want to start looking into plot elements and character web in a few movies and see how they tie in with each other (if they're done right). A...
It seems to be leaving me alone now—that dialectic I've been writing about for so many years. You know, left brain/right brain,...
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