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Writing What is the writers
contribution?
Can you name ascreenwriter?
How many writerswork on a film?
How much is thedirector and howmuch is the writer?
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Writing
Written by Joe Eszterhas
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Writing
Written by Charles
Brackett & Billy Wilder
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Writing Reading a
screenplay - what is
there and what ismissing?
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Writing Classical Paradigm
Dominant narrative structurein American Film
Protagonist - initiates action
Antagonist - resists action
Dramatic question -
How does the protagonist
get what he/she wants Conflict/opposition
Patterns of action - cause &effect until climax andresolution
Casablanca
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Writing Non-verbal orfigurative techniques
Motifs
Symbols
Metaphors
The Shining&
Diane Arbus Twins
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Writing Motifs
Integrated within the
realistic texture of afilm
Anything that is
systematically
repeated, yet does
not call attention to
itself - unduly
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Writing Symbols
BeingThere
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Writing Symbols
Planet of the Apes & Godzilla
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Writing Metaphor
A comparison that
cannot literally be
true Two items that are
not normally together
- devoured be love
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Writing Allegory
Avoidance of realism
Connection between
a character orsituation and a
symbolic idea or
complex ideas
The Seventh Seal
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Writing Allegory
Avoidance of realism
Connection between
a character orsituation and a
symbolic idea or
complex ideas 8& 1/2
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Writing Allusion Implied reference to
a well-know person,
event or work of art
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Writing Allusion Implied reference to
a well-know person,
event or work of art
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Writing Homage
Like a quote or
tribute to a colleagueor established
master
Battleship Potemkin
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Writing Homage
Like a quote or
tribute to a colleagueor established
master
The Untouchables
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Writing
Psycho & Halloween H20
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Writing Point of View
First person narrator
Omniscient point of
view
Third person narrator
Objective point of
view
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Writing First person narrator
Tells his/her own story
or an objectiveobserver
Can be reliable or not
Can be the camera
A Clockwork Orange
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Writing Omniscient point of
view
Camera or narratoris an all-knowingobserver like in anovel
Every time the
camera is moved,you are given a newway to evaluate thescene
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Writing Objective point of
view
Variation ofomniscient
Records events
impartially - ideally
suited to film
More realistic as
there is less
distortionThe Passenger
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Writing Literary adaptations
Loose
Faithful Literal
Emma
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Writing Loose
KingLearand Ran
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Writing Faithful
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Writing Literal - often
reserved for stage
plays
Proof- the film
and the play
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Casablanca
1942
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, IngridBergman, Paul Henreid &Claude Rains
Voted #2 film of all timeby the American FilmInstitute
Nominated for 7 Oscars -won 3 - Best Picture,Best Director & BestScreenplay
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CasablancaMichael Curtiz 1886-1972
Hungarian who came to
Hollywood in 1926 and
became a staple in the
Studio System
Films includeCasablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood
CaptainBloodMildredPierce
White Christmas
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Angels with Dirty Faces
KingCreole
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Casablanca Here's looking at you,
kid" was voted as the #5movie quote by the
American Film Institute
"Louis, I think this is thebeginning of a beautiful
friendship." was voted as
#20
"Round up the usual
suspects." was voted as
#32
"We'll always have
Paris." was voted as #43