Mar 30, 2014
Stu and Chas delve into unlikable protagonists in comedy. How do filmmakers keep us watching characters who should alienate us? To answer this question, Stu and Chas look at the first 20 pages of HOT FUZZ, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and - of course - GROUNDHOG DAY.
PS: In ANCHORMAN (which we also talk about)... um... they...
Mar 16, 2014
After analysing awards-nominated screenplays, Stu and Chas turn to the original screenplays that struck it biggest at the box office in 2013: GRAVITY and FROZEN. Do bigger films stick more closely to the archetypal story structures espoused by Vogler and Snyder?
We start discussing GRAVITY at around 7'33" and FROZEN...
Mar 1, 2014
Do Oscar-Nominated screenwriters follow the structural formulas prescribed by the 'gurus' and books?
Stu and Chas analyse two screenplays nominated for Academy Awards in 2014 – PHILOMENA and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB – to see whether they follow the structural theories espoused by Blake Snyder, Michael Hauge and...