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Good things come to those who wait. That's what Annie's always believed.
It's why, when her fiancé Keith launched his nanotech company, Annie set aside law school to help. It's why she went all-in, trusting the company's success to make her degree moot. Law school was for her mother anyway. After Rebirth goes public, she and Keith will be rich enough to do whatever they want … like working on her award-winning student screenplay - the real dream...
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Alys is a wealthy young dilettante in 1980s Los Angeles when he runs into the mysterious Nesselrode-who leads him into the catacombs of an empty movie house, from which he emerges in a black-and-white fantasia.
This is a Los Angeles on the verge of becoming itself, a place where silent films dominate the landscape, and Alys soon finds his home in the pictures and falls in love with the seductive siren Moira Silver. But as he becomes bewitched by...
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Sometimes it seems like everybody's writing a screenplay. But who reads those screenplays? Professional story analysts, that's who. Screenplay Story Analysis explains exactly how to become a professional story analyst. Along with a basic how-to on writing a story analysis-or "coverage"-this book explains the techniques and thought processes involved in reading and evaluating a screenplay. Get familiar with terms, techniques, and general story elements....
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This is a true story of how one man, on his journey to the Arctic Circle to satisfy his bucket list, finds love in Nome, Alaska. Edward, an electrician and California native, travels to Nome armed with his fishing gear and his guns for hunting. In short order, he sets both aside after meeting Nora, an educator in the area and in the villages. She is a redhead that tries desperately to hide her voluptuousness. Nora, a transplant from the Midwest, was...
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This book contains four screenplays and one stage play dealing with tragedy, comedy, and a variety of world settings, compassion, romance and fantasy. They are all in "play" format. "Wave of Destiny" is a script for a full-length movie and has had the trailer produced at Lake Tahoe. "What's in a Name" is an hour teleplay. "The Pepper Grinder" is a stage play that the writer has produced and directed at the CommRow in Reno, NV in July 2012. "A Writer's...
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The movie Bendra is about a young girl named Bendra Sky. She had been sexually abused since the age of ten until she was sixteen years old. She became pregnant and had a baby boy. Months after the baby was born, she decided to reveal the father to her best friend, Miss Pierre, who works at the children's department. However, the mother found out who the father was during a visit; at Miss Pierre's house. The DNA test was revealed.
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Want To Know What's Really Going On Under Three Act Screenplay Structure?
This screenwriting book moves past generic screenplay analysis of structure, i.e. three big, boring acts, to discover the seven sequences underpinning them. “Master Screenplay Sequences" will revolutionize your understanding of structure by showing you how to break scripts down into manageable ten to fifteen minute chunks, or "mini-movies."
- Fully understand how to make...
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In 1974, Philip K. Dick was commissioned to write a screenplay based on his novel Ubik. The film was eventually scrapped, but the screenplay was saved and later published in 1985. Featuring scenes that are not in the book and a surreal playfulness-the style of the writing goes back in time just like the technology in the book's dreamworld-this screenplay is the only one Dick wrote and features his signature mix of paranoia, humor, and big-idea philosophy....
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Events inspiring this story came from several directions, one was reading John Steinbeck's - 'Of Mice and Men' and Harold Brighouse's - 'Hobson's Choice' both conveyed in storytelling screenplay format. Prologue….Currently retired and living in the Vale of Glamorgan with my wife Elly, plus our dog and our cat I enjoy writing stories drawn from amazing life experiences in various parts of the world. Set in contemporary Arizona and presented in storytelling...
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This guide to film writing is an ideal introduction to the craft for would-be screen scribes or film buffs who want to learn how it is done. A broad introduction to writing for the screen is provided, along with a structured system for creating strong screenplays, based on the author's successful online college course. This book goes beyond the typical formulaic approach, offering insights into the classic mythic structures as well as contemporary...
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Gilgamesh lords it over the people of Uruk until Enkidu appears to counteract his arrogance. The two of them, now close friends, seek immortality through extraordinary deeds until Enkidu meets an early death. Gilgamesh, in sorrow, continues to seek immortality on his own and after many struggles comes to realize he is only a man and fated, like all men, to die.
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Quintessential Coen brothers fare, but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Misérables. In it almost all the principal actors, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, sing. While not quite a musical, Inside Llewyn Davis is, built around full-length performances of folk songs that were, heard in the grubby cafes of the Village in a year when Bob Dylan, who kind of, sort of shows up in the movie, had just appeared on...
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Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio's invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result.
Frederic Tuten, in Vogue magazine, wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn...Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in...
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Life Mountain
In the snowy
mountains of life.
Keeping the heart
warm is pivotal when
the cold winds start to pick up.
When beats skip don't trip flip the script and live on.
A Play
With a king refusing to be anything different,
than corrupt.
The court deems it necessary to act and rebel.
However,
they all might not have the same motive in mind.
Oh, and a jester might be the ring leader...
And a short story, action packed in America 2045, gripped...
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The insider's guide and perfect companion to the film starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Vanessa Redgrave.
Stunning and surreal, Lulu on the Bridge is a romantic mystery with a lot on its mind. It is the story of Izzy and Celia, two lonely, wounded, and mismatched strangers, transformed into soul mates by the uncanny powers of a phosphorescent stone. Destiny, as well as some bizarre and near-tragic circumstances, conspire to keep the lovers...
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Grey Water is a glimpse into the unnerving and painful experience that a homeless teen must endure. His daily life provides an insight into the impoverished survival patterns that are a necessity to maintain the slightest strain of sanity. The screenplay provides an in-depth perspective to the paranoia of isolation, struggling to accept one's truth, & the physical abuse that occurs at random.
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