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Screentalk #05 - XXX - Jul/Aug 2002
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Rob Cohen's XXX - Making A Mythic Movie Hero - Think action movies are all about camera angles and fast cuts? Rob Cohen, director of the hit movie The Fast and the Furious and this year's XXX aims to make action films that keep you on the edge of your seat with characters who redefine the notion of ""hero"" for a modern audience. This industry veteran talks about storytelling mythic anti-heroes, and anit-heroines, and how to make your action scripts stand out.
INTERVIEWS
Bone Crushing Terror! Spine Tingling Chills!: Legendary B Movie Director Ted V. Mikels - What Mikels could teach filmmakers toady is how far you could go with limited resources and raw ambition. Meet legendary B Movie director Ted V. Mikels.
K + J = MIB 2: The Combustible Chemistry of our Favorite Rogues in Ray-Bans - Screenwriter Barry Fanaro talks candidly abotu the long-awaited summer sequel starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
Douglas Wick: A Writer-Friendly Producer - Academy Award winning producer Douglas Wick talks about his upcoming film Stuart Little 2, and how he feels about screenwriters.
David Russell: Storyboarding's Super Hero - David Russell has created storyboards for name directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Martin Campbell, and Baz Luhrmann on films like Return of the Jedi, The Color Purple, Terminator 2, Vertical Limit and Moulin Rouge.
Dahmer: Spiraling Down - ""What this world has come to when you can't do anything nice for someone anymore,"" said Jeffrey Dahmer to an unsuspecting victim. Writer/Director David Jacobson talks about tackling controversial topics for his new film Dahmer.
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At the Feet of Giants: Words Into Pictures 2002 - The elite of Hollywood's writing community gather to share their wit, wisdom, and worries about the future of film and television with nearly one thousand wannabes, couldabeens, and maybeso's.
Turning Nicholl Into Gold - Part IV: Bridging Story - Hear what the Nicholl winners have to say about how they prepared to enter the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition. Exclusively in SCREENTALK.
Heroes To Love and Villains to Hate - If you have truly captured the villain's soul and motivation and made him a worthy adversary of your hero, audiences won't be able to wait for each new dastardly scene in which he appears. Here are some tips to make your hero and villains worthy.
Breaking In... - Two lawyers quit their day job to write and sell a television show. Eleven months and sixteen days later they did it. Was it luck or naivete?
Mulholland Drive: Lynch's Ultimate Chick Flick - Mulholland Drive is the vision of an artist and his willingness to show us what we might be afraid to see on our own, providing some of the most compelling and complex female characters delivered via the movie screen from an American writer/director.
Revising Out Melodrama - Every scene, and every piece of dialogue must be real, relevant and riveting in your story to create a dramatic work of art.
COLUMNS
Notes From the Edge: Taking The Plunge - Part III - The Digital Diver's Toolbox - Check out the screenwriter's new, digital, killer apps. They're doozies!
From the Trenches: Truth, Half-Truth, & Television Truth - Part IV - Learn how TV's Andy Griffith, who grew up on a little farm in North Carolina, made Larry a Hollywood pro.
The Write Game: Individual Style - Got It? - What you should know if you are hoping to make a sale in today's Hollywood.
Evoking the Story Journey: Why We Write (Or Not) - Do you judge yourself by your writing? Do you feel others judge you by your writing? If the criticism is negative, how do you keep writing?
Convergent Media: Empires of their Own? Vertical Integration & the Network Pilot Season - Who's hiring whom in Hollywood, and why? What's slated for the next season by the majors?
Screenwriter's Cafe: Achieving Championship Writing Mentality - Part I - Getting in The Zone is a mental place we should achieve whether we are star athletes, writers, or actors.
GLOBAL
2002 Cannes Film Odyssey - The Cannes Film Festival can be amazing, but it's like an emotional rollercoaster where you go through big highs and even bigger lows.
Some Cannes, Some Can't: The Cannes Film Festival 2002 - Think you got what it takes to attend the Cannes Film Festival and Market? Find out what it's really like in the eyes of everyday people.
Claude Miller: The Grieving Mother in Betty Fisher and Other Stories - Claude Miller is an intimate storyteller. He has worked wih Goddard and Truffaut, and written and directed over thirty films. In this conversation, he talks about his latest film Betty Fisher and Other Stories.
Screentalk #05 - XXX - Jul/Aug 2002
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