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The Unorthodox Great Screenplay Checklist

Studying screenplays is a worthy practice, but can sometimes lead to cookie-cutter scripts, without the spark of originality that defines truly great films - with that in mind, here’s the ScriptArsenal “Unorthodox Great Screenplay Checklist”. Does your screenplay fit the bill? To compile this list, ScriptArsenal found commonalities in eight of the greatest screenplays of all time (all won Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars), FARGO, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, JUNO, WITNESS, GOOD WILL HUNTING, SPOTLIGHT, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and THE CRYING GAME. The protagonist is dead wrong about the most important thing in their own lives. In GOOD WILL HUNTING,...

How to Elevate Your Writing: Specifics

Specifics are the stuff of great screenplays. Quick, what are three of the best screenplays of the last twenty years? Plenty of screenwriters might mention GET OUT, JUNO, and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Not coincidentally, all three won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. All three have also been heavily influential on spec screenplays, often imitated in the spec market. But what specifics make these screenplays stand out? In GET OUT, the white family that welcomes in their white daughter’s black boyfriend is seemingly progressive. Bradley Whitford’s character confides to his daughter’s black boyfriend that he would have voted for Obama...

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