Audio Dramas: LifeAfter, Steal The Stars, Give Me Away, Quiet Part Loud. Film: Horror At Gallery Kay, First Time Caller. Co-founder of Gideon Media He/him
Everyone's saying this but "He couldn't fit a whole woman in his head" is SO good, it's one of the main things writing is supposed to do, create phrases that don't make literal sense but still articulate something you often perceive but never heard quite put into words before.
I've definitely known guys like this, some of whom would totally consider themselves feminists, but at some deep level simply can't see women as being as *complete* as men. (Hell, I may be one of those guys, if I was I'd be the last to know.)
Beyond the manifold other reasons this is eye-meltingly embarrassing, I'm trying to picture sidling up to Taylor Swift like 'Hey kid, you want a few marketing pointers?"
Definitely not a fan of the rising strain of Doctor Who thought that’s basically “whee! anything can be anything and if you want the barest minimum of internal logic or dramatic parameters you’re a fussy nerd who only cares about rigid canon.”
You’d never guess from film twitter that Alex Garland is not only not somehow in disgrace but is in fact riding high on a mostly well-reviewed movie and his biggest opening weekend ever.
Interesting to see which "Bring Back Show X" fan-bases are the most tenacious. I sometimes like to check the replies under random Netflix tweets to see which shows people were demanding be uncanceled. Various shows came and went, but those Warrior Nun people always showed up.
...when writing dialogue that involves one character interrupting or responding immediately to another (which is most of my dialogue), I always put the idea the second character is so abruptly responding to about 5 or 6 words **before the end of the first character's line.**
A standard complaint of tourists is that New Yorkers want everyone to walk too fast, but that’s not quite it. As someone who was a New Yorker for years, we want you to walk with *specificity.* We can steer around you if you’re slow, but not if you’re *vague.*
People who walk down the street and somehow manage to be everywhere and nowhere at once with a certain kind of directional fecklessness & total lack of spatial awareness make me wanna start shoving bodies
@Srirachachau
@skinnyd0gs
Dude could be making an absolute fortune on the Neeson circuit but he’d rather be slurping gruel in a rickety skeletal bio-chair, he’s the best
Continues to be wild how transphobia just entirely swallows a person's life, drives their every interaction, corrodes every relationship. You're never just a person again, every second is focused on getting asinine digs in.
SEVERANCE makes a potent argument against typecasting. No one ever casts Turturro or Walken to play bashful sweetness, turns out they're absolute masters at it.
In my view two things are true: Downey was superb as Tony Stark, and also it only required about 15% of his talent. I’m majorly stoked for the return of full-strength Robert Downey Jr.
The cast is uniformly fantastic, but the real revelation here is Robert Downey Jr.
He’s described “Oppenheimer” as the best film he’s ever been in, and I don’t know if I’m willing to go that far, but it’s maybe the best Downey has ever been in a film.
Phenomenal.
I would argue that the revelations of "The Timeless Children" (which I don't care for but acknowledge are canon) would be far more interesting to subsequently explore with living Time Lords for the Doctor to talk to about it.
Two afterthoughts:
1) I totally wasn't being disingenuous w/that first tweet; I expected this to be a pretty boring deep-in-the-weeds thread. I'm delighted it wasn't.
2) Maybe writing advice also works best when it's nuts-n'-bolts like this, rather than big global declarations.
Those 5 or 6 words, to me, give the interruption a tiny-but-crucial extra bit of authenticity that suggests the characters are listening to each other, not reciting lines they've memorized.
Scoop: President-elect Joe Biden is meeting tomorrow with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in Wilmington, Delaware, per people familiar. It will be the first in-person meeting between the three Democratic leaders.
SCREENWRITERS: You’ll read a lot of stuff on here regarding hard and fast rules for formatting, but remember that what your script needs more than anything is a moment where a number 6 on a hotel door comes loose and flips down so it looks like a 9, leading to shenanigans.
I may be telling on my modest circumstances a bit here; I live in a small apartment, and I can't think of a clear trajectory I could throw a book in without consequences.
There's been in general an odd avoidance of the kind of arguments that were so valuable to establishing pairings like Nine/Rose, Ten/Donna, Twelve/Clara.
I really think we needed a moment during the Time Window scene where Ruby gets angry at The Doctor for going back to Ruby Road and not trying harder to find out who her birth mother is. Just feels weird how she has almost no reaction to it when it's her main driving force
It's such a trip how things work out. If you were somehow able to know Bong Joon-ho's career in advance and you had to guess which film would be his mainstream breakout in America, you would absolutely pick "the Chris Evans sci-fi action movie that's in English."
That's writing-advice at its best: lessons learned in the field, passed along in that spirit, and no one saying "You're not really one of The Elect if you don't do this." </end>
If the hardcore 13 fans find this, before y'all give me the business, please know that I adored Whittaker's performance (and am a borderline Thasmin) but I didn't always adore the writing she was given.
Never in a billion years did I dream something like this might be possible. Playing even a tangential role in bringing Wallace Shawn's plays to audio has been the honor of my life.
Interesting to note: anecdotally, from my mentions, the most common cause of book-throwing is "anger at the book being bad." But close on its heels is "dismay at misfortunes befalling sympathetic characters."
Several folks have confirmed for me that this was specifically from Goldman's memoir ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE. If this kind of thing is of interest to you, definitely get it and read the whole thing; this anecdote barely scratches the surface of the goodies therein.
Now yes, technically this is Olivier's advice, not Goldman's. But Goldman was the one who took a bit of offhand Olivier craftsmanship on set, absorbed it as a piece of writerly advice, and put it in a book so many other writers could benefit from it.
If you can come up with a scene this fun in the early part of your episode it almost doesn’t matter how good the rest is, people will still feel like they had a good time.
To my mind, acknowledging at the end that Kazan is a great director twists the knife further, making it impossible to write off Welles as jealous or a generalized hater. It focuses all the attention on the pertinent charge.
I love how the conservative MO is to sneer at actual danger (viruses, climate change, easily acquired assault rifles) and quake in terror at fake danger (Halloween drugs, walking down the street in a major city).
Super-important reminder, and something Democrats might avoid if they can allow themselves to not be the genteel party for once. The line has got to be: "While we pray for the recovery of all who are suffering, nothing could be more emblematic of his deep failure of leadership."
A reminder to all Americans that the net effect of our prime minister catching COVID-19 was that it prompted a surge of patriotic support. From which he emerged with renewed popularity. Which enabled him to tear up key functions of the state
On substance, Democrats got what they wanted: that Mueller didn't charge Pres. Trump because of the OLC guidance, that he could be indicted after he leaves office, among other things. But on optics, this was a disaster.
#MuellerHearings
Goldman agreed immediately, and thought so much of this request that he put it in a book many years later. I think it's great too, indicative of what a natural listener Olivier could be as an actor. Ever since I read that...
The opportunity to work with artists of this caliber - not least of which is the great
@claymcleod
- is a great honor, and one which I hope I have lived up to with my contribution.
They need to get Billy Dee to intro each episode in front of a roaring fire with a cognac and a big book of his memoirs: "Ah yes, where were we? Now, this the time I..." <fade to Glover at the holo-craps table>
You have to turn into a monster to get paid. You have to become a person you don't recognize. You have to be ready to send daily, increasingly agitated emails to some poor underling who has nothing to do with why you haven't been paid yet because that's the only email you have.
“We’re going to focus on franchises,” David Zaslav said. “We haven’t had a
#Superman
movie in 13 years. We haven’t done a
#HarryPotter
in 15 years. The DC movies and the Harry Potter movies provided a lot of the profits for Warner Bros”
We live in what is rapidly resembling the cultural equivalent of Bikini Atoll. Each day, it seems, a new person is 'deleted': Tim Allen, Roseanne, Shania Twain. And now, Kanye.
Well, based on my mentions, a lot of people, it seems! It's still so hard for me to picture. I've definitely gotten mad at books, no doubt, but the most I've done is throw them onto the sofa next to my thigh.
My whole adult life I’ve taken “then I threw the book across the room” to be a symbolic statement meaning “I strongly disliked it” but clearly I was wrong.
@EmmaTolkin
I love how everyone specifically starts clapping when the kids are low enough that they wouldn't actually die if the whole system collapsed.
Buttigieg ends with “I think people are just bored of that sort of thing” (referring to Trumpian rhetoric) and I think there might be gold there. “Boring” could be the next “weird,” like “aren’t you just sick of this guy, don’t you wish you could turn on the TV and not see him?”
Buttigieg: Of course they are trying to say he is too far-left. If it was Manchin, they would be saying the same, it is all they know... If you think making sure everyone in Minnesota had paid family leave is too far-left, vast majority of Americans think that’s a good idea
For context this happens at the beginning of act 3 of a slam-bang action movie. It's kind of wild and electrifying to watch the biggest star in the world come as close as he feels he safely can to directly criticizing his government.
It's amazing the degree to which Weird Al, on paper, is a six-month flameout novelty act, but in practice is more of a perennial than like 70% of the artists he parodies. Like nobody who heard "Eat It" (even if they were laughing) would think "that guy will be beloved in 2022."
He explained that by rearranging the line this way, his character would have a second or two to process the word "bank" and plan his response while Scheider was saying "sooner or later." That way he could cut the pause and respond immediately like Schlesinger wanted.
- Fuck around
- Find out
- Freshly enlightened by finding out, vow to fuck around no more
- As time inexorably advances, memory of finding out dims
- Homogeneous social circle extols theoretical virtues of fucking around
- Fuck around
Despite my already extensive admiration for Jeff Bridges I would not have guessed at his ability to land a perfect Norm Macdonald-style wisecrack, delivery and all.
There is no upside to moderate centrism because right-wingers will see literally anything coming from a Democrat as hard communism. They're lost, they're gone. We might as well just try to get things we want.
Reporter
@EmmaVigeland
: Do you think Joe Biden is a socialist?
Trump supporter: Yes.
Reporter: How would you define socialism?
Trump supporter: I define socialism as when you bring down your own country, your own race, because he’s not black.
🎥
@TheYoungTurks
Meghan McCain Rejected 'Dancing With the Stars' Three Times Because 'I Want to Run for Office at Some Point' and 'Don't Want to Publicly Humiliate Myself'