James McCarron
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Lana Del Rey is a bit like Kubrick in that she’s quite obviously the best of her era, but her art exists in a liminal space of its own, cool enough to be a cultural force but too authentic for major awards bodies to give her the honors she clearly deserves.
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Since this was my first year seriously committing to a screenwriting career, my only goal was this: write two good pilots for shows that I would want to see. I believe I’ve done that. Here’s looking at you, 2022.
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Austin Butler keeping his roles set between the 40s and 60s is a smart move. Like Keira Knightly, I simply do not buy that this guy’s face has seen a smartphone.
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Spielberg is one of those directors you love as a kid. Then when you’re 19 and trying to be cool, you say he’s overrated. Then when you’re 28, you recognize the generational talent he is. Happy Birthday to one of the true GOATs.
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I don’t care what you say, Screenpit sounds like we’ve all been dumped into a colosseum where we must fight to the death in order to sell a screenplay or get staffed.
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Every working writer that’s read my pilot THE SCORE: “This is hands down the best unproduced script I’ve read.”
Contests: 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Black List: 🖕🖕🖕🖕
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I love this community. So many of y’all take time out of your lives to read and give thoughtful notes to absolute strangers! Forget the drama, *this* is what Screenwriting Twitter is about.
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I think people sincerely don’t know how to read. What does “a bit like…in that” mean to you?
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@tonytost
Jamie Foxx’s character in Collateral strikes me like this. A genuinely good guy who is looking for the American dream and connection, and yes, attunes to a darker side to survive, but draws a stark moral line and nearly sacrifices himself to stand up to Cruise on principle.
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Boxing is a fucking joke.
@Canelo
is one tough mf but
@GGGBoxing
won that fight hands down. This is a black mark on a great sport.
#GGGvsCanelo2
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Didn’t make the Nicholl QF list, but was right on the cusp. Statistically, that’s in the top 8.5%? Not bad, not great.
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Today I learned: the only thing people are more afraid of than sincerity is sincerity with style.
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@TUSK81
@MarisaKabas
Weird, I’ve never been told “go back to Ireland”. It’s almost like this isn’t about immigration at all, but racial discrimination. 🤔
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I really love this community. You really put your hearts and souls into creating your dreams, your hopes, and exploring your traumas and desires. That takes fucking guts. Love y’all.
#screenwriters
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Where are my “damn, I wish I was in Austin right now” people at?
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@MrHWM
I’m a bit awards-agnostic at this point (especially with the Grammys). But I agree, I can’t think of another songwriter or artist even close to this talented that’s doing it rn (especially now that Kanye’s long gone).
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I know Twitter can be very contentious, so let’s talk about something light and fun. Do you believe in God?
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Pete brings out the best in people, and I always meet the best people at Pete events. Thanks to
@Colorado4Pete
for letting me march with them in Boulder. With supporters like these, I know we’re going to
#WinTheEra
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The only writing advice I can give is to find a tribe of kind, incredibly insightful people who read your scripts and give you notes. People like
@staceycrussell
@JoeStraynge
@lizsmithmfa
and
@tschrack
make me a better writer, and I appreciate the hell out of them.
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I’ve been on screenwriting Twitter for a very short amount of time, but in that time, I’ve constantly seen
@BogeyGuyC
being the nicest, most positive supporter of all us emerging writers. Happy Birthday Guy!!
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So, apparently PRIDE & PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT are Joe Wright’s first two features. Which is just insane. What are other legendary one-two punches by directors?
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Apparently I missed this yesterday, but I made it to the next round of the Circle of Confusion fellowship! Feeling extremely honored, and now I’m gonna go eat my weight in waffles.
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Does MAD MAX: FURY ROAD technically count as sci-fi?
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Why did no one tell me how rewarding it is to write a feature?
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Look, I get it. And I appreciate industry pros (even if some are being pretty condescending) for trying to look out for us. The problem is that the industry is so narrowly funneled. Writers are desperate to find *any* way in. Can you blame them?
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Re-watching s1 of True Detective. Yes, it’s one of the greatest seasons of television. But good God, there should be an Emmy just for the location scouting.
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So yeah, people are throwing their loglines on Twitter because they’re facing a landscape of silence and rejection and despair. Rather than shit on them for that, maybe we should focus on opening new avenues through which writers can be discovered.
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Out of random curiosity, what is your favorite Shakespeare play?
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I think Batman Begins gets lost in Nolan’s filmography because it’s not his *most* anything. But it’s still phenomenal.
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I didn’t realize this was a “fuck it” script, but spiritually, this seems like a “fuck it” script to me.
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Imagine thinking this post is controversial, let alone outing yourself as unhirable by attacking
@SeanTwoNames
, one of the nicest, most helpful, and most talented guys on Screenwriter Twitter. Yeesh.
As ‘22 gets underway, quick reminder: showrunners and execs who can get you staffed are always perusing Twitter. Many check to see how pleasant, interesting or insufferable you are on here, especially if you’re shortlisted as a prospect. If you’re combative, they move on. 1/2
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Writer/film-lover friends, what is a period drama that’s held up remarkably well?
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@MSignorile
Yes, exposing what literally everyone already knows about him is definitely going to work this time.
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Headed to a cabin in the woods with the gf and her friends. A group of young adults in the woods…what could go wrong?
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Oh no, I no longer get a substantial high from submitting for a competition in the last few hours.
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THE SCORE
When his old coach loses his house to bankruptcy, a former minor-league baseball player uses his knowledge of the game to start a daring sports betting operation in order to buy the house back.
#ScreenPit
#pi
#dr
#th
#cov
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Personally, I think a classical education is fine if that’s what the parents choose. There is a lot of great wisdom in the canon. That said, the high school curriculum listed here is an utter dumpster-fire. Here’s why:
This is what students at Naples Classical (a Hillsdale affiliated K-12) are reading this summer. This is what a serious education looks like.
Kindergarten
•Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McKloskey
•Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
•Dr. Seuss Books
•Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
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Who’s another person who was both an iconic director AND acted in an iconic role outside of their own directorial work? So far I’ve got John Huston (Maltese Falcon, Chinatown) and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Third Man).
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I’m treating this Nicholl deadline like a showtime at AMC. There’s trailers, right?
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Hey
#pipelinewriters
! I’m curious, what are some of your hobbies outside of writing? I feel like sometimes I need a separate release channel.
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Well it’s
#1stPageFriday
, so I figured I’d throw mine into the mix of these awesome scripts. This is the opening to my sports drama pilot The Score.
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There are four pools of non-actors you can reliably pull from to get good to great performances: wrestlers, directors, country singers, and pornstars (actual ones).
Kim Kardashian, The Weeknd, Conor McGregor -- every performance awful. Normalize casting actors in acting roles. It's like when YouTubers were first a thing and everyone gave them deals but quickly realized getting 10M views vlogging doesn't mean you can write a comedy pilot.
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@MilesKlee
@nwalks
The documentarians are former members. I read their LA Times interview and they still find a lot of value in the more “harmless” 🙄 aspects of it. Seem to be consciously obfuscating some aspects to display most of it in a positive light.
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Oh shit. My drama pilot Aether is a Quarterfinalist in the
@screencrafting
drama competition!
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@CinamonSluh
Wow, crazy that they stole my tweet word for word.
Lana Del Rey is a bit like Kubrick in that she’s quite obviously the best of her era, but her art exists in a liminal space of its own, cool enough to be a cultural force but too authentic for major awards bodies to give her the honors she clearly deserves.
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This movie is perfect, not everybody gets it:
That movie is perfect, not everybody gets it..
I’ll start:
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Here to randomly shout out
@JoeStraynge
. Not only does his script ULTRA MODERN absolutely crush as an eerie, soulful psychological thriller, but I finally got to hang out with him over Zoom and he is, as I suspected, a fucking delight. Here’s to an amazing 2023 for ya brother!
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And then I realized: each of these authors critique their society in a way that shows resistance to unjust authority as, if not an ideal, at least worthy of contemplation.
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And contests? I appreciate some of these groups trying to elevate writers, but they’re still so subjective that you have to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to find the right reader(s) at the right place. Many writers don’t have that luxury.
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In the past few years, Eric Roth has cowritten A STAR IS BORN, DUNE, and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. Absolutely legendary third act of his career, and firmly cements him as one of the greatest screenwriters ever.
Eric Roth says he just wrote a new film for Denis Villeneuve that is about 'space and time' and is 'very lonely' and 'certainly about eternity'
Many suspect it's 'Rendevous with Rama' which follows A team of astronauts going to explore a giant interstellar spaceship hurtling
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I think I’m gonna be off social media for a bit. Mental health isn’t wonderful atm. That and school have to take priority for me right now, and this place…it’s a lot. Love my friends.
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@ladytuono
Just because it’s the most recent thing I’ve seen, Jean Smart delivering the line “I knew Proust, you know…”
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The point is, the overly sanitized idea of classic education represented here is just as much defined by the exclusion of what it sees as a threat to a mainly white-male hegemonic structure. Always look for what is left out.
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@JillFilipovic
She’s adopted his policies too. For instance, he was the first candidate (and I mean the moment he announced) talking about getting rid of the electoral college. She just came around to that the other day.
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Everyone is tweeting about “TCM” and I’m over here like “aww, everyone loves watching Turner Classic Movies!”
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I just hate that classicism and traditionalism only show up to serve the right or right-coded spaces. Perhaps this is a fault of some on the left as well. An obsession with “progress” merely for the sake of it (also a fault of Silicon Valley) has blinded us to past virtues.
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I just want to write good shit that resonates with some people. I wanna write about love and life and sadness and joy and yeah, some contemporary issues, but I’m just very fascinated by people and their little quirks and casually glorious lives.
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I’m pretty sure The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - Light in August - Absalom, Absalom! is the greatest consecutive four novel run by any writer ever.
William Faulkner's Best Novels Ranked In Terms of Aesthetic Achievement:
1. Absalom, Absalom!
2. As I Lay Dying
3. Light in August
4. The Sound & the Fury
5. Go Down, Moses
6. Sanctuary
7. The Hamlet
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Rebecca Hall is one of the most underrated actresses in the world. Just stone-cold perfection in film after film.
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I don’t know if you’re all ready for this discussion, but THE HUNGER GAMES: A BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES is actually one of the best films of the year.
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Going a step further to say that THE REVENANT is a modern masterpiece, and we really don’t talk about it that much. Leo and Hardy at peak powers. Some of the most stunning visuals ever put to film. The “squirrel” monologue.
Has enough time passed for us to recognize that Tom Hardy’s performance in THE REVENANT is an all-timer?
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Can someone settle the “bold sluglines” debate for me? I love the look of it and it really streamlines a read for me, but I’ve heard it makes one look amateurish.
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@PamKeithFL
This has been an openly recognized thing for years. Here’s a Jon Stewart piece on it. Weird that everyone is shocked by a description of activity we’ve had ample photos/videos of prior to this.
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We knew it was coming, but this snub is simply ridiculous. One of the most original, interesting, and stunning films I’ve seen in a while. And not one nomination.
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At first I wondered, what’s the through-line here? Why are we missing seminal writers like Toni Morrison, Shakespeare, Ralph Ellison, Phyllis Wheatley, Dickinson, Orwell, Tolstoy? Fahrenheit 451? To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Even the classics. I remember reading Antigone in high school and feeling like my brain was on fire. She resisted an unjust patriarchal framework. Only Ovid does that here and most people, including this guy based on the rest of the list, miss Ovid’s subversive critique of power.
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I spoke with someone really smart recently who likes movies but is not into film the way we cretins are. And she was like “ugh, why would I watch a boring Scorsese movie?” And then it turns out she loves SHUTTER ISLAND and WOLF OF WALL STREET so, there ya go.
Scorsese is such an inherently fun filmmaker his reputation lately has been so weird amongst people who don’t bother watching any of his stuff
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but tap-dancing is actually cool as fuck.
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“…for the plot” is the most telling part here. These kids are being conditioned by an increasingly corporate glut-machine that art is merely plot (what happens) and not beauty or portrayals of human connection (how it happens, why it happens).
A study claims that 48% of Gen Z feel that “sex and sexual content is not needed for the plot of most TV & movies.”
51.5% reportedly want to “see more content focused on friendships and platonic relationships.”
(Source: )
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I think it’s interesting that so much rests on the pilot script, but every show I’ve fallen in love with over the past few years (ANDOR, FOR ALL MANKIND, RESERVATION DOGS) took me a few episodes to really get into.
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@mehdirhasan
Mehdi, I respect you a ton, but he literally criticizes the Israeli right-wing in this piece. Saying he doesn’t is just bad faith.
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Querying isn’t even a ghost town, it’s like walking over the sands of what was once Ozymandias’ kingdom. I’ve sent tons of them. Not one response. Not even a rejection.
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Question: why is AMC pulling Dune: Part Two from some theaters already when every screening I look at is already sold out?
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@joanwalsh
Kamala has been a frontrunner since day one. CNN carried her announcement live and played clips of it for days after. Pete announced in a broom closet on CSPAN-5 with twelve reporters in the room. Come on.
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Can anyone point me to scripts that deal with MANY years. Like 20+ years of someone’s life?
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Unimaginable as it is, Alex Garland has directed only two feature films. Insane talent.
Which director with 2 or less feature films are you excited to see more of?
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There’s no other reason why Melville’s Billy Budd, a book easy to code with anti-left-woke-mob politics (think “witch hunt”), is in place of Moby Dick, one of the most profound critiques on laissez-faire capitalism ever written (and a stone cold masterpiece).
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Annihilation.
What’s a film you consider a Masterpiece that doesn’t get brought up enough?
I’ll start…
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@razingarizona
Not voting for the nominee in a state we finally have a chance to flip. Cool. Bernie is not my first choice, but your priorities seem a little twisted here.
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Do you start with the story, the themes, or the characters first?
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In honor of
#nationalcatday2019
here’s my girlfriend’s cat in a
@PeteForAmerica
shirt. She says we’re going to
#WinTheEra
and I’m feline pretty good about our chances!
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