Name: Talk to Me, Part 2: World Building & Structure by Write Your Screenplay
Duration: 37 min 16 s
Description: Learn mirrors and foils, an intuitive approach to world building, structure, character and theme in Jake’s script analysis of Talk to Me.

Learn mirrors and foils, an intuitive approach to world building, structure, character and theme in Jake’s script analysis of Talk to Me.

Talk to Me, Part 2: World Building & Structure

"...If you’ve been following my podcast, you know that I’ve been talking for some time about the desperate need for some smart people to start writing superhero movies.
Action movies and superhero movies are the mythologies of our time-- millions of people see them, and as much as we might like to dismiss them as pure entertainment, the truth is, they irrevocably shape our view of the world, our children’s view of the world, the stories we tell ourselves about how to be our best selves, how to solve our problems, and what it means to be a hero.
In this way, all action movies are political.
Which is why it’s so darn nice to see a movie like Wonder Woman kicking ass at the box office..."

Wonder Woman: The Structure and The Politics of The Action Blockbuster

"...one of the cool things about movies and one of the cool things about life is that pretty much everybody in the world thinks that they are the hero and that other people are the bad guys.

And that means that if we want to learn to write bad guys, we need to learn to step into their shoes, and see the world through their eyes-- to empathize with the people that we hate the most, the people that we don’t understand, the people that we think are horrible.

There are people who I might feel exist only to antagonize me; there are people who might drive me crazy. But the truth of the matter is, if I stepped in and saw the universe through their eyes, they don’t think of themselves as the antagonist. They think of themselves as the hero...”

Spider-man Homecoming

... in addition to being an extraordinary cinematic experience, Dunkirk is a particularly interesting script to look at as screenwriters, because it breaks pretty much every rule that you’ve likely been told about screenwriting or about filmmaking in general, or certainly about the war movie genre…”

Dunkirk Podcast: Dunkirk vs Saving Private Ryan

"...Writing really is self-exploration. Facing certain things that you may not be dealing with in every day and recognizing those things and giving them a voice..." - Sebastian Stan

An Interview w/Sebastian Stan From I, Tonya

Jacob Krueger interviews Legendary Comics Writer, Ron Marz about comics, comic book writing and the links between comic book writing and screenwriting.

#ronmarz #greenlantern #thor #silversurfer #witchblade #superboy #marvelvsdc #crossover #starwars #darthvader #guardiansofthegalaxy #thanos #gamora #drax #spiderman #batman

Comic Book Writing: An Interview w/ Ron Marz

Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can apply those lessons to your own writing.  More information and full archives at WriteYourScreenplay.com
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