How to Show Character

Why is it easier to write straight screen stories about straightforward guys? Well, for one a movie is a story told in pictures. The main ingredient in a screenplay is character (s). And you have to tell a story about this character, as much as possible, through pictures.
Dialogue is just to supplement your character and [...]

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Is Cinema Escapist?

How do you distinguish between good and bad writing (after the standard quality of language test of course)?
I would think how the narrative is structured, i.e., the setup of conflicts and how they’ve been handled/ resolved. And since conflict emanates from human beings, reality which is in direct dissonance their wants and needs, another [...]

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Cinema – Escapist or Realistic?

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I watched a lot of films over the weekend. One of them being the classic “The Bicycle Thief. Yet I chose an offbeat film, The Chumscrubber to write about.
Ironically, the Chumscrubber grabbed me immediately and I’ve had difficulty in making up my mind about the undisputed [...]

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One of my social networking friends posted this snippet from a film which I thought was so apt for all those people who say they want to become writers but are yet to begin on anything. The usual excuse for that is ‘I’m thinking about what to write.’ I know instinctively they never will.
Here goes…
An author [...]

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Persistence Pays Off!

I’ve finally had a break through! I’ve been grappling with the plot of my second novel for the past one week and nothing worthwhile was coming out. There were all these bits of paper strewn about some covered in ink from top to bottom (one of my good days) and some with barely a line [...]

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The Chumscrubber (2005) – Movie Review

I know I haven’t been posting on the blog but I’ve just been so busy! I’ve been writing my next novel which is coming along nicely, I’ve been busy catching up with movies and I’ve been busy with interviews etc.
During this weekend I caught up with several films I’ve been meaning to catch but [...]

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Tail the Story Has Been Updated

Guys, do visit the Tail the Story page and catch up on Anna’s Adevntures os far. For those of you who came in late, it is like playing ‘tail the word’. I start the thread and invite anyone to join in and take the story forward from where the last person left off.
If you are interested in [...]

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Ran

I happened to watch Ran yesterday again. And after watching it, I still maintain my previous viewpoint that it is one of the best adaptations of King Lear I’ve seen.
While Akira Kurusawa brings an oriental touch to the proceedings but more or less adheres faithfully to the original. So, set in medieval Japan, Ran [...]

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How Much to Reveal and When?

So you’ve gone out and bought a bunch of books, devoured them and now you’re ready to write your screenplay. And when you do, you want to write to wow! You want to blow the people over with your characterization. And so you cram as much detail and information as you can about your characters [...]

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What is Love?

What is the nature of love? And I’m talking about carnal love. Does love only blossom at first sight? Or is it something that can evolve between people thrown in each other’s company of a length of time?  And if the latter is also the case as happens in people tied together in arranged matrimony, [...]

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