What goes into writing a great movie script?

Audiences are smarter than you think. Something about turning down the house lights makes their IQs go up.

Research the facts and then throw away the research.

What you leave unwritten is as important as what you write. SUBTEXT.

Does CloudFlare protect blackhat sites from DDOS attacks?

Cut everything that is not a payoff, or a setup for a specific payoff. “Omit needless words.” Think about the sparseness of joke telling, or Grimm Brothers.

Get up there yourself. Be in a movie. Take some acting (not writing) classes. Learn how a trained actor approaches a text. Learn why actors take roles. They do as much if not more than the writer does.

People choose what to see based on the high concept. Make sure to deliver an ending consistent with the high concept -- it is what the audience paid for.

Common Antibiotic Found To Tame Blood Pressure in Surprising New Role - SciTechDaily

Primary characters must change polarities. Secondary characters can change less.

Your primary job is to create situations. Modern actors will fuck up your dialogue, despite whatever your contract says.

A scene should change valence from beginning to end. Up to down, down to up.

Main signs of narcissism as diagnosed man says there are three ways you can tell for sure that you aren’t one - LADbible

Outline everything. Use story beats. Keep character’s mouths taped up, until they absolutely MUST speak. Write the script and the dialogue at the last minute, after you’ve revised the hell out of the outline.

Leave holes. Write and unwrite. Put it in, take it out.

Make sure to pack enough explosives into the rocket.

Why all the fuss about Trump’s policy initiatives? Isn’t he just trying to set a moral tone for the Republican Party to make America great again?

Don’t direct from the page. Everyone, from the director on down, wants to be part of the process of making movies. Let them do their work.

A critical function of storytelling is wish fulfillment. This is why video games are so popular. “That protagonist is JUST LIKE ME.”

Learn to tell a story orally and not through writing. Try telling your story to a friend.

Is "Cancel Culture" a Threat to Free Speech? Many argue that cancel culture has gone too far, leading to the silencing of unpopular opinions or voices. But is it really a violation of free speech or a consequence of people holding others accountable?

The DSM 5 is a wonderful character compendium.

Only God gets it right the first time. Rewrite everything.

Maintain a slush pile/idea file. When you are ready to write, choose the best seeds to plant.

AI Experts say that, "with the advancement of AI, humans will stop coding within a few years." How much do you think this is true?

All rules are made to be broken, but you damn well better know WHY you’re breaking them.

Conflict is your power source; without it you have no drama and hence no script.

Use status to help drive conflict. King Lear/fool. Upstairs/downstairs.

If the world was flat, would it be possible to see Mount Everest if it was on the other side of the Earth on a clear sunny day?

Actors give better feedback than writers do.

To develop a unique voice for each character, try interviewing your characters.

Write in reverse time. Major characters need to change polarity; minor characters may remain the same at the end.

Part toy, part fashion, the arrival of the viral Labubu was a long time in the making - AP News