I’ve been stuck at a crossroads with my WIP. It’s all outlined, but still rough. Then I remembered the theme, being there for others. Someone helped me the other day, and it sparked something again.
Don’t underestimate the power of your kindness, creatively or socially. #scriptsky
This is the furthest the human race has ever ventured in our solar system. Let that sink in.
Halfway through my WIP.
And so my dumb car chase begins.
#scriptsky #scriptsky+
1000%. And sometimes, like with this movie, I think they got it right, but it’s not as popular as the others and doesn’t get enough recognition. It's a mixed bag all around.
I've never heard of that movie before, Academy Awards aren't some bellwether of popularity... they often get it wrong!
I appreciate everyone who helped put it in perspective and respectfully disagreed with that term. I admittedly forgot it won the awards it did, and I did watch it recently. Is that a crime that warrants belittlement? Maybe so 🤷♂️
I’m not in the habit of doing call-out posts like this. I get that this person might be having a rough day, but that’s no excuse to belittle someone else. I’m dealing with a lot right now and don’t have time for this garbage.
Now, I probably misused the term here, but there’s no need to be rude or question my "knowledge" of films. Especially when you claim to be progressive in your bio but act like a bully online. Be better.
So, a couple of things before this guy started clowning me (and blocked me).
For starters, "hidden gem" is a broad #filmsky term. There have been 98 Academy Award ceremonies in this industry. Some movies can still be "under-appreciated" relative to others in the mainstream circuit.
I believe you can rent it on Apple TV+ or stream it on Disney+.
an overhead shot of a braided, sesame-seed coated enriched bread, on an antique wooden cutting board
Happy Armenian atheist Easter from me and my choreg
See, but once it’s digested, I realize I’m out the next day and need to get some more.😔 Teach me your ways.
To be honest, I was really talking about myself back in 2018. I wasn’t as attentive to the Actor in a Supporting Role and Actress in a Leading Role categories as I should have been that year. But oh my god, Sam Rockwell as Dixon was amazing.
It portrays a cycle of violence, racism, and corruption in the police department through spontaneous, human moments. Frances McDormand as Mildred is phenomenal. Her growth lives in her facial expressions -- her grief. No smiling until she finally does, and it feels purely cathartic. 10/10! (3/3)
Insanely thought-provoking. It does something to subvert the logline that will probably divide some folks, but in my opinion, since I had read the script while streaming it, it enhanced the experience. (2/3)
Hey #filmsky (and #scriptsky)
It's been a while since I did movie recommendations.
This is one of those hidden 2018 gems: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
(1/3)
I'm back #scriptsky
Haven't been doing the best. Slowly but surely working on my WIP while I let the second draft of my other script marinate until I finish the first draft of this one.
How have my amazing peers been holding up?
Or when the inciting incident of your life does not begin until page 30.
Ultimately, you have to do what works best for you, there’s no single “right” approach. That said, I’ve found (and this script reader seems to agree) that logs can be incredibly useful as a guiding tool. They often highlight underlying issues in a script like structural things. That’s all.
I think what’s been new for me lately is writing a polished logline before starting a script. Usually I write a very messy logline, then do a vomit draft and refine the logline afterward. But the past few days, I’ve been working on making it “perfect” before I even hit Fade In.
What @leahelizabethevans.bsky.social has been trying to tell #scriptsky for eons: your script is only as good as your logline.
And to add, being economical with the words of your logline is no different from being economical with action and dialogue lines.
Because when we let these smear campaigns work, we become the same people who would want to censor a movie like Schindler's List.
Movies are political. Movies will preach a message that tells you when a genocide is a genocide. Deal with it. Even if it did not win an Oscar.
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A greater testament to why, as filmmakers and writers, we should not let that be a deterrent to making unflinching and bold depictions of truths that elitists want to suppress and intimidate truth tellers for speaking.
/6
But when a film is portraying an objective evil, something thar is clear and undeniable, suddenly the word "propaganda" appears.
I believe that is part of why The Voice of Hind Rajab was able to be nominated for an Oscar, but ultimately did not win.
The smear campaign worked.
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Do not think it goes unnoticed when people say, "No, it is because movies should not be one sided and political." They might not mean to, but they are willing to abandon that rule when it comes to films that amplify a Zionist narrative.
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Yet when a film portrays Palestinian suffering, people are much quicker to dismiss it as political or propagandistic rather than engage with what it is actually depicting.
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Why is The Voice of Hind Rajab not afforded the same understanding? It is a film about a Palestinian little girl who was MURDERED and who tried to call for help. The film was clearly 'good' enough on its own merits to be nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.
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Steven Spielberg made Schindler's List, one of the greatest films ever made. Yet no one would dare call it one sided propaganda about why Nazis are bad. It depicted an objective evil. The Nazi regime was horrific. It was evil. We all agree on that, right?
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