101 common mistakes most screenwriters make. All good screenplays are unique, but all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn’s book will teach the reader how to avoid the pitfalls of bad screenwriting and arrive at one’s own destination intact.
The epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home – one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of an everyman’s journey through life. Odysseus’ reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year…
The Greeks considered the Iliad their greatest literary achievement, and so no epic poem in any language has ever rivalled it. The Iliad is the culmination of the long standing oral tradition. The oral technique enabled a master bard like Homer to develop what may historically have been an event of minor importance into a…
Chapter One The Phenomenon of Thelma and Louise: Callie Khouri When Thelma and Louise was first released in the spring of 1991, I was conducting a screenwriting workshop for Austrian filmmakers in Vienna, a city of great beauty and culture, the home of Mozart, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Strauss, Mahler, and Freud, to name just a…
Screenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will succeed in Film and TV industry, world-wide. What is a screenplay: The nature of the screenplay is the same as it has always been: A screenplay is a story told with pictures, in dialogue and description, and placed within the context of dramatic…
When I first started thinking about writing this book, I wanted to find some kind of tool that the screenwriter could use in order to recognize and define various problems of screenwriting. But as I began writing, I became aware that I was really writing about the solutions to various problems, and not really identifying them. It…