Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Extra Credit Post
Post your extra-credit blogs here via the comment link below. Extra-credit is granted for reading a chapter of your choice from Story or Adventure in the Screen Trade and blogging on it. You may also receive extra-credit for ready the screenplay Chinatown. Define the plot-points in a given act. You will receive 5 points of credit for each act.
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I read the last chapter of Adventures Chapter 22 The Relay Race. I read Chapter 21 for this week’s homework and just kept reading. It closed off the last chapter and for the whole book. He points out how little the scriptwriter usually has with the movie process, how he barely talked to anyone during the production, how he was not even invited to the screening of the movie he wrote. I was surprised that he was not given at least one free ticket even if he had to provide his own transportation, seems odd considering he is the scriptwriter. I agree with Goldman that screenwriters should be consulted if there are problems with the script or they think the meaning was lost somewhere. Even though the director might have envisioned it differently than the screenwriter, the writer might help clarify how to get the point across or how to explain a scene in better, or change it to suite on the director imagined it, etc… I can see why a lot of Directors write their own screenplays, not only to show their multitalented but also to avoid relaying their idea to a second person with fear it will be butchered. A lot of actors have done this lately, like Sylvester Stallone, Quentin Tarantino, Ben Stiller, Mel Gibson, etc… I would want to direct my own screenplay too, if I had the resources to make it as good as it deserved to be. Over all it was a nice chapter to end the book on, a little negative, but truthful.
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