Ugly Duckling, Split-Screen
August 22, 2023
A side-by-side “Ugly Duckling” image contrasted muted vintage tones with a bright, modern recolor. A lyric bridge framed the moment as a wary kind of self-recognition
Sharing Fifty Percent With Jonathan and Being Entertaining
6:00 a.m.
I think I always prefer to pay or share 50%. It's the way I prefer it. Jonathan's my 50-percent business partner. He's probably got more with me than all of his other clients combined. And he's having more fun. A lot of people say that most of their daily entertainment content, their entertainment quota comes from me! The other people, they're dull, they're just f***ing boring. It's like what Leonardo DiCaprio says in Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort: It's so f***ing boring--I want to kill myself. That's what being sober is like. That's what life is like without Lehan. Without me. It's no longer color. It's black and white unsaturated. It's just not any fun. It's just the way it is. The truth.
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8:30 a.m.
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Jill Chamberlain’s Nutshell Technique and Character Flaws
7:30 p.m. (b)
Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don’t know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a script, write snappy dialogue, and set a scene. They may have interesting characters and perhaps some clever plot devices. But, invariably, while they may have the kernel of a good idea for a screenplay, they fail to tell a story. What the 99 percent do instead is present a situation. In order to explain the difference, Chamberlain created the Nutshell Technique, a method whereby writers identify eight dynamic, interconnected elements that are required to successfully tell a story.
Now, for the first time, Chamberlain presents her unique method in book form with The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting. Using easy-to-follow diagrams (“nutshells”), she thoroughly explains how the Nutshell Technique can make or break a film script. Chamberlain takes readers step-by-step through thirty classic and contemporary movies, showing how such dissimilar screenplays as Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Silver Linings Playbook, and Argo all have the same system working behind the scenes, and she teaches readers exactly how to apply these principles to their own screenwriting. Learn the Nutshell Technique, and you’ll discover how to turn a mere situation into a truly compelling screenplay story.
"The Nutshell Technique cracks the code behind why we love the movies that we love. It guides you to organically write the story you want to tell."
― Callum Greene, Producer
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
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it's about a character having a " character flaw "
example: 1. naivety (Michael Corleone), 2. beard, 3. protruding ears, etc
and correcting it
then it's a comedy
or else, it's a tragedy
and ain't that a damned shame?
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