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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

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Tired (but true): Die Hard is a Christmas Movie Inspired: Die Hard demonstrates key principles about combat from Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare

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I am reeling that Dave McKean's cover work for Sandman can effectively be classified as - get this - Frasurbane. Frasurbane Gothic, essentially. But Frasurbane. cari.institute/aesthetics/f...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

David Lynch was a model of determination. Eraserhead took 4 years to make. Blue Velvet exists because of a contract stipulation from Dune. Executives rejected Mulholland Drive and he finished it as a feature. Twin Peaks' 3rd season came 26 years after the 2nd.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

The Manchurian Candidate, adapted from the eponymous novel by George Axelrod, is the cornerstone work of the conspiracy thriller subgenre. Appropriately for such a seminal work, it has an incredible standard - a standard that subsequent indebted works don't always maintain. 🧵 #Screenwriting

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

In its third season, Aeon Flux left behind its berth in animation variety show Liquid Television and became a half-hour program. The first episode in this new format, "Utopia or Deuteranopia?", is one of the greatest political thrillers of the past 30 years. #Screenwriting 🧵

submitted 191 days ago • 1 comment

John Huston adapted and directed two of the great treasure hunting movies: The Maltese Falcon, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In both of them, Huston could not have cared less about the stories' respective treasure to a heroic degree. #Screenwriting 🧵

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

You might not guess it, with Dr. Jack Shephard running around applying tourniquets and delegating prenatal care and generally playing hero ball at an elite level, but Part 1 of Lost’s pilot is a Kate Austen story. #Screenwriting 🧵

submitted 206 days ago • 1 comment

Shoutout to @sepinwall.bsky.social, the high priest of making episodic television on the terms of episodic television (rather than the “8/10/12-hour movie”): David Chase spells out his ideal vision of how scripted series should work.

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I have watched three documentaries about Hayao Miyazaki; every single one was riveting.

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The 1st act of Seven Samurai has to move us, the audience, from the shadow of horse-riding bandits, thundering with violent impunity, to a place where those bandits might be stopped from starving everyday people to death. Here's the path that Kurosawa and his co-writers followed. #Screenwriting

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