Thanks, David. The story is about a young immigrant who returns to her native Albania to find and save her missing brother, who's caught in a bloodfeud.
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 09:37 PM
Buckeye Jones, on 28 February 2011 - 10:15 PM, said:
Just sent in my script to my first contest (scriptapalooza, which seems to have a good reputation). I think I'm on draft four or so, but it feels done. Here's keeping my fingers crossed.
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 10:15 PM
Ryan, keep at it! I'm looking forward to hearing about it--(or them, since you have so many cooking)!
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Posted 02 March 2011 - 09:08 AM
Cool. Austin and Sundance deadlines are May 1; Zoetrope is August 1; the Nicholl Fellowship hasn't posted theirs yet.
So now you have some motivational deadlines.
So now you have some motivational deadlines.
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Posted 02 March 2011 - 12:14 PM
I really want to submit to Zoetrope.
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 02:34 PM
Awesome quote from Robert Towne:
"A movie is really only four or five moments between two people; the rest of it exists to give those moments their impact and resonance."
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 10:30 PM
Ryan H., on 06 April 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:
Awesome quote from Robert Towne:
"A movie is really only four or five moments between two people; the rest of it exists to give those moments their impact and resonance."
I can see this. Off the top of my head from Towne's own Chinatown...
1. "I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does." - The real Evelyn Mulwray introduces herself to an understandably confused Jake Gittes.
2. "But, Mrs. Mulwray, I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think you're hiding something." - Gittes is hired by Mulwray to investigate who has a motive for setting up her husband.
3. "You... you've seen my father?" - Gittes informs Mulwray that he has been talking to her father, in what becomes a very awkward post-coital scene.
4. "She's my _____. (slap) She's my ______. (slap) She's my _____. (slap)" - Family secrets.
5. "Evelyn, put that gun away. Let the police handle this." - In Chinatown.
