Dialogue Is Just Another Sound Effect
When a civilian meets a screenwriter, usually the second thing they say is, "Oh, so you write all the dialogue then?" (first thing is "Have you written anything I would've seen?")…
Great Movie Monologues 5 – "Jaws"
Watching "Jaws" (1975) again, I am reminded - again - of how perfect a film it is. Performances, music & sound design, editing, and writing come together to make a…
White Hunter, Black Heart 3
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990) - in which director Eastwood plays director John Huston on the shoot of Huston's "The African Queen" - is one of the great…
White Hunter, Black Heart 2
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990), based on the book by Peter Viertel, is the thinly fictionalized account of the production of John Huston's "The African Queen" (1951), with…
White Hunter, Black Heart 1
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990), a fictionalized account of John Huston's making of "The African Queen" (1951) - with Eastwood playing Huston - is a superb and underrated…
Great Movie Monologues 3 – “Network”
Paddy Chayefsky was one of the great writers of motion pictures. His masterpiece, "Network" (1976), lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Rocky". "Rocky" is an excellent movie - really great.…
Great Movie Monologues 2 – “Doctor Zhivago”
Robert Bolt was a very lucky writer - terribly talented, yes - but lucky, lucky, lucky. He wrote only a very few screenplays, and most of those that he wrote…
Great Movie Monologues 1 – “How To Get Ahead In Advertising”
At the disheartening conclusion of Bruce Robinson's SECOND comic masterpiece, "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" (1989), the ... the ... well, the antagonist, let's just say, for those who…