Somehow Film

#Filmmakers helping other filmmakers make better #FILM. (Somehow) 🎬

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"I think you always have to have an emotional spine to your #story regardless of whether it’s comedy or not a comedy. And in the first [Deadpool] that emotional spine was Vanessa and Wade’s relationship. In this one, it was about family." @TheScriptLab https://t.co/xNE627Vtoh

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“You just have to set yourself some kind of rules from the beginning, or try and find clarity. Otherwise, you will very easily get overwhelmed, or you end up doing a rambling kind of thing that doesn't have any focus.” #filmmaking #screenwriting #film https://t.co/F999NanfOR

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“For me, the most important thing is finding a through line: finding an angle of attack, whether it's a point of view, whether it's a time in the story that you're focusing on, whether it's a location that you're focusing on.” #filmmaking #screenwriting https://t.co/F999NanfOR

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“Some plot points you may wish to critically plan in advance are the opening, fork in the road, all is lost moment, and climax scenes. All of these moments are pivotal to appropriately unfold the conclusion your story is heading towards.” #screenwriting https://t.co/XiaTvSgvhN

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“Cast the 'character' [voice] of your scene action. A sugary sweet kids movie might sit better with Tom Hank’s dulcet tones whereas [for] a punchy action franchise with a bit of edge, [you might] think about a Samuel L. Jackson-type.” #screenwriting https://t.co/7B3jsTmssN

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“If you’re #writing a #horror film...write what scares the hell out of you. Whether it’s spiders, cults, dolls, or cosmic terrors, if something genuinely scares you, your fear will bleed onto the page. Your authentic fear feels genuine to an audience.” https://t.co/8fdJbaf3S6

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"What better way to explore [our fantasies] than to write them out as stories. In this sense, everyone is a potential storyteller. Everyone is telling themselves stories all the time.” #storytelling #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/2FMmD8zMdz

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“A writer’s block can also be caused by draining all of your mental power on monotonous aspects of your life. So it can be refreshing to get your mind off the things that currently don’t excite you and get it on to things that do.” #screenwriting #writing https://t.co/2FMmD8zMdz

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“We’re often disorientated watching [Eternal Sunshine]... struggling to place where we are in the relationship. But this touches on the nature of memory. The futility of trying to erase memories shows how they both trap us and serve us.” #nonlinear #story https://t.co/1PdF7xDHBP

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“I think #cinematographers are born with a “beg, borrow, and steal” mentality — anything they can do to make the shot as great as it can possibly be. They’re the defenders of the image. And sometimes that comes in conflict with a director." #cinematography https://t.co/O44dqG3qQ7

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“We’ve all seen fast-talking Tarantino-esque gangsters dozens of times. Nothing beats the originals, so be original with your characters. Write as though you want other screenwriters to copy YOU.” #writing #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/Df8ZbBcpB6

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“Try to visualize different scenarios and outcomes within the story model that you’ve initially envisioned. Play with it. Visualize different results. Visualize what happens when your characters make different decisions.” #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/uvRGQh5ANn

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“You can choose only forty, forty-five, fifty scenes to tell a story. You have to pick those fifty scenes very carefully if you’re going to get a rich story.” #PaulSchrader #screenwriting #filmmaking #storytelling https://t.co/6ffZThuB8j

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“You have to try — in the structure of an hour-and-a-half movie — to arrange scenes that appear to follow each other in what seems to be a natural way, but is anything but natural.” #PaulSchrader #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/6ffZThuB8j

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“I stumbled into this business. I didn’t train for it. I yelled, ‘Action!’ on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.” #JohnHughes (everyone starts somewhere) #filmmaking #SupportIndieFilm https://t.co/2ezREFRSDm

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“Visualization is a crucial part of the #writing process, especially in #screenwriting. You’re writing within a visual medium so it’s key to visualize your concepts, stories, settings, and characters first before you even come close to [typing] them out.” https://t.co/uvRGQh5ANn

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“I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story.” #JohnHughes #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/2ezREFRSDm

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“Moral ambiguity is always a plus. If your character struggles with right and wrong, that potentially creates an interesting, compelling character so long as his or her struggle is real.” #writing #screenwriting #filmmaking https://t.co/Df8ZbBcpB6

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“This is where I think #screenplays and #movies cause terrible frustration; the dramatic form itself is so messy. So much of what we are trying to do is simply to put things in proper order. And [ordering] is complicated; it’s absolutely not simple.” #film https://t.co/cntj234Q0F

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“That’s the spirit of what ‘write what you know’ is supposed to protect... We should be able to answer the question, Why do you care? Why this? Why now? And if you can find that thing and articulate it to others, then you ARE #writing what you know.” https://t.co/6cQmXX2QpJ

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“Not only does Eternal Sunshine contrast the beginning and end of a relationship, it also employs #ScienceFiction to say something deeper about the fate of a relationship between two characters both destined to be together and destined to break apart.” https://t.co/1PdF7xDHBP