Posted: May 9, 2017 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Quiet Passion, Catherine Bailey, Cynthia Nixon, Duncan Duff, Eero Milonoff, Emily Dickinson, Jarkko Lahti, Jennifer Ehle, Jodhi May, Juno Koosmanem, Keith Carradine, Mikko Myllylahti, Oona Airola, Terence McNally, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki | Leave a comment »
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I am now offering a new consultation service: so much emphasis has been given lately to the importance of the opening of your screenplay, I now offer coverage for the first twenty pages at the cost of $20.00. For those who don’t want to have full coverage on their screenplay at this time, but want to know how well their script is working with the opening pages, this is perfect for you. I’ll help you not lose the reader on page one.
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Warning: SPOILERS
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki revolves around a boxer, the titular character, a local Finlandian hero, who is given the chance to go one on one with the world champion in his class, an American.
But there are two issues getting in the way. Olli’s trainer needs him to lose weight to box in a class one level lower than Maki normally boxes in. But even worse, perhaps, Olli is in love. He has met a young women whom he adores and who is accompanying him to prepare for the match.
Nothing much happens in the story. It moves along at its own leisurely pace. It, and Olli, are very ingratiating and likeable and the relaxed nature of it all tends to win you over. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 30, 2016 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Aiden Gillen, Allen Ginsberg, Amarcord, Begin Again, Ben Carolan, Blake Jenner, Boyhood, Cleo from 5 to 7, Don Wycherly, Emily Dickinson, Everybody Wants Some!!, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Jack Reynor, John Carney, John Lennon, John Travolta, Lucy Boynton, Mark Mckenna, Mary Doyle Kennedy, Once, Paul McCartney, Richard Linklater, Robin Williams, Sing Street, The Dead Poets Society | Leave a comment »
First, a word from our sponsors: I am now offering a new service: so much emphasis has been given lately to the importance of the opening of your screenplay, I now offer coverage for the first twenty pages at the cost of $20.00. For those who don’t want to have full coverage on their screenplay at this time, but want to know how well their script is working with the opening pages, this is perfect for you. I’ll help you not lose the reader on page one.
Ever wonder what a reader for a contest or agency thinks when he reads your screenplay? Check out my new e-book published on Amazon: Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, including my series of essays, What I Learned Reading for Contests This Year, and my film reviews of 2013. Only $2.99. http://ow.ly/xN31r
and check out my Script Consultation Services: http://ow.ly/HPxKE
Warning: SPOILERS
Two movies have opened recently that take place in the recent past (the 1980’s to be more precise). Each felt pastelled over with a patina of nostalgia, a painful desire for a sweet past. But the two couldn’t be more different in their approaches.
Everybody Wants Some!! (with two, count ‘em, two exclamation points) is the most recent effort from writer/director Richard Linklater. Like his previous effort, Boyhood, it doesn’t use a hero’s journey or character arc, nor does it use a plot in which a central character must overcome an obstacle or gain a goal, as the basic structure.
No, rather, like such films as Amarcord and Cleo from 5 to 7, it uses a passage of time to hold its story together.
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