Avoid chit-chat, unless it is original and interesting. An occasional allusion to another movie or literary work can be effective, but I’ve already heard “We’re not in Kansas anymore” at least a hundred times (or so it seems).īoring. Sometimes, trying to control emotion has more impact than actually expressing emotion.Īvoid clichés and lines we’ve heard in other movies. I remember recently explaining to a writer that five of her characters sobbed at various times in the script. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a twisted. ![]() Most writers have a tendency to exaggerate character emotions. Then, in the screenplay, the warden yells at Andy but in the movie, the warden’s speech is whispered with intensity. Indeed, it does of all the seven capital (deadly) sins, Superbia is the most flexible and the most elusive, attacking us in ways we hardly recognize. Andy tells the warden to have H&R Block do his taxes he’s done. Pride it gets ’em every time, chortles Satan (Al Pacino) at the end of the 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate. ![]() He tells Andy that the man who could prove his innocence is dead. In Shawshank Redemption, the warden approaches Andy who is in solitary confinement. Oh, and by the way, just one exclamation point is plenty and you may not need the one.
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