Patrick O'Driscoll

Script editor. Writer. Into all genres & formats. Love drama, thriller, sci-fi. #StoryIsKing | External Assessor @CNaM_ie | Former Project Analyst @NIScreen

[Patrick O'Driscoll @_PatrickOD]

Dramatic questions hook readers, but few scripts generate tension on the most meaningful level.

DON'T LET THEM GO – a look at writing deep dramatic tension
https://t.co/mhuwfyYGjb

#WritingCommunity #screenwriting #scriptchat @IPSG @Scannain_com @CreativeScreen @IFTN @FilmInCork

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

The Insider is 1) one of Al Pacino’s best films 2) one of Al Pacino’s best performances. I love, love, love this film & strongly believe this movie deserves to be mentioned alongside Heat as the best work of Michael Mann’s career. On Pacino’s 86th, give this movie a go. 🎂

[Jamie Nash @Jamie_Nash]

I teach screenwriting. I showed a clip from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Most hadn't seen it. Most of them haven't seen much before 2000. But they tend to have DEEP knowledge of video games and anime and other styles of storytelling I know little about.

[Screenplayed @Screenplayed]

‘Project Hail Mary’ screenwriter Drew Goddard shares advice every writer and filmmaker needs to hear.

Watch or listen to the full episode: https://t.co/X2nOxicro4

[Bitmund Freud @BitmundFreud]

Boomers needed 650 hours of minimum wage work to pay for a year's rent. Millennials needed 1,800. Gen Z needs 2,800.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Director Gore Verbinski tells us why AI-generated slop won’t be able to truly replicate real filmmaking anytime soon.

“It’s ingesting all this stuff off the internet, and spitting it out so exponentially fast. So now, it’s starting to drink its own piss.”

[Robert Patrick 🇺🇸 @robertpatrickT2]

The Sopranos premiered on this day in 1999.

I still remember being offered the role of David Scatino. I had met David Chase a few years earlier on a film that never happened and then he went on to create The Sopranos. By the time we spoke about the role the show was already a phenomenon. David told me no one would think to cast me this way — a pathetic gambling addict. What he didn’t know was that I had just lost a lot of weight playing Matt Damon’s father in All the Pretty Horses so I was already physically lighter and feeling exposed which turned out to be exactly what the role needed.

I worked closely with my acting coach and friend Stephen Bridgewater and we went through every scene in detail. I also spent time talking with people from Gamblers Anonymous which gave me a real understanding of the addiction. I remember flying from the Venice Film Festival straight to New York to start filming and walking into that first table read. Everyone was flipping pages to see who got whacked. I was already off book and ready. I knew I had a handle on Scatino from the start.
Forever grateful for the opportunity and experience. 🙏🏼 #TheSopranos

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

43 years ago today, Fraggle Rock debuted.

The theme song will always be a banger.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…

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[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

As theatrical has pretty much collapsed for non-tentpole/event movies, horror has become one of the only ways for new directors to get a feature film made.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

[TG4 @TG4TV]

Manchán 🕯️

[Patrick O'Driscoll @_PatrickOD]

@IsiahWhitlockJr Barleycove. And Mizen Head. 💛 Have a pint in Billy O'Sullivan's, Crookhaven. 🍻

[Isiah Whitlock Jr. @IsiahWhitlockJr]

Shooting a movie in Ireland🇮🇪... where reality still beats AI.

[Mark Sanderson @scriptcat]

There’s still nothing quite like reading a printed screenplay.

Don’t make the mistake of writing without reading a pile of screenplays.

Be careful of the awards scripts as they may be production drafts & written by the director. They can get away with a lot more than a spec.

[Del @TheCartelDel]

Just learned that Drew Struzan can no longer paint anymore, as his Alzheimer's has progressed. What an incredible legacy that captured every generation...

[Matthew “Movies” Thomason @ThomasonTown]

Movies used to be made by going to places with a camera

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

On this day in 1976, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the 'Big Five' Academy Awards, Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted). Only three movies have achieved this in the history of the Oscars. It's a flawless movie.

[Coimisiún na Meán @CNaM_ie]

💚🎵 Má tá ceol álainn Éireannach ag teastáil uait thar an deireadh seachtaine speisialta seo, féach ar 'Cumasc: Seisiúin sa Black Gate'. Tá 24 eipeasóid le fáil ar @TG4TV, ina bhfuil meascán de cheolchoirmeacha beo agus d'agallaimh. https://t.co/rKwWu3plqU #SnaG25

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Let’s remember David Lynch, explaining on why he told stories the way he did.

[Patrick O'Driscoll @_PatrickOD]

David Franzoni: “I’m tired of seeing movies about movies people have seen. I want to see movies about lives people have led.”
https://t.co/SlaCQwHZhm