Coraline is a creepy delight to behold. The visual world of the stop-motion animated story is rich with texture, fine detail and has a wonderful handcrafted quality. The direction builds an increasingly sinister but whimsical tone. A compelling emotional journey is what is sorely lacking here.
The Black Swan and The Social Network
Two of the most highly acclaimed and most talked about movies of the 2011 Awards season are The Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John J. McLaughlin and The Social Network Directed by David Fincher and written Aaron Sorkin adapted from a book by Ben Mezrich. Both are Power of Reason films with Power of Reason protagonists.
It Never Gets Easier
Here is the good news and the bad news about being a writer– “It never gets any easier.” Every writer from an Academy Award winner to a complete beginner face the same challenges, obstacles and terrors
Day Five at eQuinoxe
Working on a script with a group of advisors is never a linear process.
Day Four at eQuinoxe
The function of film and television is not to provide a reflection of the world, but to provide a compensation for it.
Day Three at eQuinoxe
Your antagonist is your protagonist’s main adversary. This person is not necessarily evil or bad, but he or she is a significant obstacle to your main character’s goal.
Day Two at eQuinoxe
When a script isn’t working well, isn’t as compelling a read as it should be or has some kind of emotional disconnect in the story the problem is usually the lack of a clear compelling and well-developed Want, Need or Price.
#MondayMusings – Day One at eQuinoxe
#MondayMusings – The workshop advisors all arrived today.
#MondayMusings – Arrival in Munich
#MondayMusings – Arrival bliss at Schloss Elmau for eQuinoxe Germany
Tony Curtis & The Power of Ambition
Tony Curtis passed away at the end of September 2010. Here is what Time Magazine has to say about one of the roles that defined him as an actor, Sidney Falco in The Sweet Smell of Success. It is a stunning example of a Power of Ambition protagonist falling to the Dark Side. (In the… Continue reading Tony Curtis & The Power of Ambition