#Movie writing

[bridoesotherjunk]

as weird as it is to say, after looking at the stuff about Spiderverse 2 possibly having the love triangle bullshit, I feel like the Venom movies actually did the whole 'love triangle' pretty well by making Dan into a genuinely nice person. Even if they did it accidentally, lmao.

It wasn't a bullshit dick measuring contest between two guys fighting to "win" the pretty girl. You felt bad for Eddie, of course, but they made it very clear it was his fucking fault things fell apart. So you have LESS sympathy for him going into it than normal romance plots where the "good guy" didnt do anything wrong. And then they introduced Dan and he was polite, he was nice, and he went out of his way to help Eddie. His girlfriend's ex. Instead of the new love being boring or a huge piece of shot like other movies do with the new boyfriend. It was only ever a triangle in the loosest sense, because after a little while you're noticing that there is no fighting or arguing going on and Anne isn't being treated like some trophy that either of them need to win. The second movie has some fights between the guys, but most of that is the growing pains between Eddie and the Venom symbiote manifesting. Eddie and Venom lash out because they want things to be good for THEM and they're still figuring out what that means.

Its weird for me to say it. But Spiderverse could take notes from the Venom series.

#Venom #across the spiderverse #venom let there be carnage #spiderverse #Movies #Love triangle #Eddie Brock #Anne Weying #Symbrock #Marvel #Sony #Veddie #Yes I'm tagging it as such #Movie writing #Symbiote #venom symbiote #Dr Dan Lewis #In this house we love Dan

[kjudgemental]

New Article

My latest piece of writing, 'Where to Start with Vincent Price', is now up on thefilmagazine. So, you know, go check your eyeballs on it? Maybe?

#horror #movies #cinema #horror movies #films #art #film #horror film #vincent price #classic horror #roger corman #the masque of the red death #b movies #the raven #dragonwyck #house on haunted hill #classic movie stars #1940s movies #tim burton #christopher lee #edgar allan poe #house of usher #film article #film writing #movie writing #movie critic #film critic #film reviews #movie review #letterboxd

[writergeekrhw]

Do you have any advice for students interested in pursuing screenwriting?

I answered this about TV writing a while ago:

I've had a mediocre screenwriting career with several sales and no produced credits, so I'm not sure how valuable my advice is, but here's a Screenwriting version:

How to get into Screenwriting in 16 easy steps:

Watch a lot of movies. Analyze your favorites. How long are they? How do they introduce the main character and her or his dilemma? What are the protagonist's dreams, strengths and weaknesses and how are they introduced? Why do I care about this person and what they want? Do I want them to succeed or fail? When is the first major turning point/twist? When is the next one? How many are there in total and how far apart? If I were to divide this into Beginning, Middle, and End sections, where would I do that?

Find scripts for things you've watched online if possible. Pay for them if you can afford it, so long as the money is going to the writer and not some thief, because that's the right thing to do.

Write your own stuff! Write 3-4 of your own movies. (You can take an online class in how to do this at UCLA Extension or other places if you need help understanding how to do this.)

Keep writing. Never stop writing new stuff.

MOVE TO L.A. (This is optional-ish, but will make life easier and up your odds a lot). Have enough to live on for a few months, cost of living in L.A. is very high.

Get a day job. Unless you're crazy rich or something. I'd recommend getting work as a P.A. or an assistant to at least start making contacts.

Make friends. Be awesome. Be helpful. Generally make a good impression. The business is small. People talk. Don't be a jerk.

Enter the major screenwriting contests and fellowship programs. They can help you get noticed/read/represented.

OPTIONAL BUT VERY HELPFUL: Produce your own short/low budget movie. Get out on the festival circuit and/or get millions of views on YouTube.

Get someone important to read your stuff. This may come via reps, friends, contests, that short film, etc.

Someone loves your stuff! Hurray1

Get asked to meet/pitch.

Sell one of your scripts/get an open writing assignment. If this doesn't happen, repeat step 7-12 until it does.

Write an awesome script or be awesomely amazing in rewriting your own script for the studio.

Accept being rewritten gracefully.

Your movie gets made! Congratulations. You made it. Get more assignments! Sell more specs! Keep on striving. Never stop writing new things. Never stop striving. Never stop.

Allow 5-10 years.

#how to #screenwriter #screenwriting #how to break into showbiz #showbiz #ask me anything #ask me stuff #advice #movies #movie writing

[zephyrionschattenflug]

movies nowadays

#movie adaptation #movies #book adaptation #movies nowadays #movie writing #modern movies #book to movie #rings of power #avatar 2 #percy jackson #artemis fowl #bad movies

[msfbgraves]

All these sequel series and reimaginings feel like fanfics written by people who dislike the genre

I mean showrunners please fanfic is character based writing. You cannot solely rely on your actors to fill in your character beats and you cannot change a character to suit your plot. It doesn't matter how you see the character. It matters how the character was drawn before. You cannot write a YA series that happens to feature Wednesday Addams, who suddenly acts like a YA protagonist because of the genre she is in. We've already had a "Wednesday Addams at summer camp", and that means she doesn't suddenly become interested in teen drama. It means she attempts to scalp the adults there because honestly they deserve it. You cannot make Luke Skywalker a cynic because you need a "fresh young protagonist melts old codger's heart". Luke isn't a cynic. You can't make Daniel LaRusso raise a bully because it would be an 'ironic inversion'. Man wouldn't raise bully and even if he did, it would make him suffer an existential crisis of guilt; he would not threaten violence against his child in response. Even if you think he ought to. Even if the only reason you're writing him is you wished he finally would. It's fine to not like an existing character but then don't write him.

Of course writers over millenia have thought: what if I put Merlin in a wacky situation? And then they called him Nerlo and were free to pick and choose whatever characterisation suited their ideas most and ignore the rest for plot reasons. But you can't do that with established characters. You cannot make Donald Duck mild mannered because you don't like him being a hothead, and you need a chill person for the plot. You can make Anne Eliott feisty as little as you can make Elizabeth Bennet demure, Netflix. If you want to know what would happen if Anne were feisty, you'd have to write a new story. Which is fine, that's how writing works, but you cannot treat a fic character as completely your own, and if you really want to turn Luke Skywalker into an asshole, you have to spend a very long time explaining what happened to him.

It really feels like writers nowadays are used to putting an actor in front of a green screen and trusting them to somehow make the character work. Yes, part of that is the actor's job. But only part of it. And sadly, they're the only ones who seem to care.

#fanfic #tv writing #sequels #prequels #movie writing

[kanralovesu]

Anyone who analyzes art needs to see The Menu

That’s it. That’s the post. It would do a disservice to the movie to elaborate, but I’ll also say in addition to being one of the most thoughtful movies I’ve seen in a while it was also damn entertaining and had me laughing and crying. 

Oh and also, its not about eating people. Its way more creative than that.

#the menu #movie review #movie #movie writing #movie theme #movies themes #movie analysis #media #media analysis #hollywood #satire #critique #cooking #art #culinary #review

[cronenfag]

as far as i'm concerned all gore is necessary

#obvi just using gore to compensate for shitty writing doesn't make something good #BUT. complaining about gore in horror movies is sooo weird like that's half the reason i'm here #also good and fun gore does actually compensate for shitty writing. maybe not to you but to me #it has to be good tho #m

[filiseverus]

The Barbie movie reminded me about how when I was little my parents were upset that I kept making my Barbie dolls kiss, so they bought me a Ken doll. The next day they found me having a funeral for poor Ken in the garden, he had died of tuberculosis. All the Barbies were in attendance and I buried him under our rose bush. The Barbies were too poor to afford a headstone (it was 1875) so I didn’t mark where the grave was and I never could find him again. He’s probably still there.

#barbie movie #barbie #feminism #ken #ken doll #i’m just ken #my writing #true story #ryan gosling #barbie dolls #greta gerwig #margot robbie #oppenheimer #barbenheimer #if you ever find a Ken doll wrapped in toilet paper that’s mine sorry

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Also, props to Allan???

He's a doll most people have never heard of. He got discontinued forever ago cause he was perceived as gay by consumers and they didn't like that.

But I love that he had an actual role in Barbie. He was very queer coded, yeah, but he didn't like when all the Kens turned to Patriarchy. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to abandon Barbieland all together. He knew it was wrong.

And then he helped the Barbies get themselves back. He had a pink jumpsuit and sunglasses and went out all stealthy to get the Barbies in the van. He even voted at the end to keep the constitution the way it was.

Big Allan fan over here.

#barbie #barbie spoilers #barbie movie #barbie movie spoilers #margot robbie #ken #barbie ken #ryan gosling #film #filmmaking #greta gerwig #writing #barbenheimer #michael cera #kate mackinnon #simu liu #will ferrell #america ferrera #corner conversations

[v1vian-th3-f4nfic-wr1ter]

Thriller Movie Concepts

I just watched an reddit story about an daycare and wanted to write something so these are concepts i had in my head and what the movie descriptions would be

Color Coded: TRILOGY

Color Coded: Daycare- A girl named Namy was hired at her dream job in a daycare, she soon realized the weird rules would leas to her demise if she missed one step, almost losing her sanity and ends up in the asylum

Color Coded: Hospital- A man named Alex worked as a part time nurse at a small hospital up in the mountains when suddenly new management turned the place into a cult housing, he lost his mind trying to find a way out

Color Coded: Asylum- A nurse named Casey was working in the asylum when they saw Alex and Namy strapped up and color coded as insane from their traumas working in their jobs, it waa their job to find a way to recover their minds, will they ever suceed?

Divine Intervention: TRILOGY

Divine Intervention: Heaven- An angel named Gabriel was working under the angel Michael, trying to move up the ranks when he saw the horrors of hell and turned into stone, when he woke up he was strung into a wheel

Divine Intervention: Hell- When a demon named Lucius found an angel peaking into the gates of hell, he drags him into the gates, reporting this to god he earned a spot in heaven, he realized the painful process of getting wings hurt way more than hell

Divine Death: Inbetween- Jesus was overseeing the angel and demon, thinking of intervening but he decided against it, knowing he wouod be smited with the power of god, he turns around and was knocked out, he wakes up, delirious

#thriller #thriller movies #ideas #writing ideas #fic ideas #movies #horror #plot #no happy ending #writing #movie writing #movie

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

#orcspeak #edit: this is not about fanfic nor is it about a specific fanfic nor is it about a specific show or movie or book #this post is about the time loop trope itself which occurs in many different stories spanning many different art forms #i don't read or write fanfic and I'm not looking for fanfic recs and whatever character you think this is about there's #an 80 percent chance i don't recognize their name

[filmloversociety]

In Barbie (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig, Ken says he wants to spend the night with Barbie because they're boyfriend and girlfriend and when she asks him "to do what?", he replies "I'm actually not sure". This is a perfect analogy to kids playing with Barbie dolls, as they know that couples "do things" but are too young to know exactly what. In this essay I will

#LISTEN #genius writing in here im not even joking #this is the film to end all filmbros #finally a movie that feels like ya know like a movie #Barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #greta gerwig

[robsheridan]

[Update: Apocalypse in Pink part 2 is out now]

Before Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”

“It’s The Hot Pink Cold War,” Clairmont wrote in her introduction. “It’s ‘Material Girl’ on the radio and ‘WarGames’ at the drive-in. It’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. We’re told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure we’re just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up — but STAY VIGILANT! and for God’s sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just don’t stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - it’s bad for the economy.”

***Continued in PART 2***

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NOTE: This is a work of fiction created by me. This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

If you enjoy my work, consider supporting me on Patreon for frequent exclusive hi-res wallpaper packs, behind-the-scenes features, downloads, events, contests, and an awesome fan community. Direct fan support is what keeps me going as an independent creator, and it means the world to me.

#rob sheridan #barbie #barbie movie #barbenheimer #synthography #nightmAIres #ai horror #ai art #synthography horror #alternate history #writing #spectagoria #sera clairmont #horror fashion #ai fashion

[nekhcore]

HEY YOU!

Yeah, you! Are you trans? Do you like reading books? Or watching movies?

Do you like media about trans men/transmasculine characters but don't know where to find it?

That's sooo crazy because I have this little spreadsheet I'm working on where I'm trying to document all media with protagonists/major characters who are FTM or transmasculine.

The spreadsheet currently has 300+ entries spread across the following categories:

Books

Manga

Memoirs and non-fiction

Movies

TV Shows

Graphic novels / Comics

Webcomics

Audio dramas

Books and movies are also sorted by:

Which character is trans (MC, love interest, antagonist, etc)

If the trans character is POC

The trans character's sexuality (Because I saw lots of transhet guys sad about only being able to find gay romances)

If the author/actor is also trans (if we know for sure)

It's free to use, and free to add to as well! Editing permissions are on, and I check on the spreadsheet every now and then to make sure everything is in order and to clean up.

If you know something that isn't on the list, please add it! You don't have to fill in every single column, but fill it to the best of your abilities.

If you don't want to use the big ass long link below, you can also use: bit.ly/FTM-protags

I made this because I want it to be a community resource. So even if you're not a trans guy or transmasculine person, please reblog!

#my gay little thoughts #ftm #trans #transgender #transmasc #transmasculine #trans community #trans writing #trans art #lgbt #lgbtq #trans books #trans movies #lgbt literature #trans literature #trans media #trans resources #trans representation #nonbinary #queer #ftm spreadsheet

[gentlyorbiting]

i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.

#mine #movies #horror #writing

[jaynovz]

if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...

literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.

go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck

forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.

fuckin rest, basically

#thoughts #writing stuff #personal #wish there was better advice than Stop Pushing and Rest and Ignore It #but sure haven't found any #and the time in between sucks a lot #jay prescribes a nice beverage four orgasms and a good movie with friends for your burnout #hope that helps #jay philosophies