In the first version of the screenplay for First Blood, Rambo was pretty much just a sociopathic killer. However, when Sylvester Stallone came on board, he requested a substantial change to the script: that his…
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A well written interrogation scene is a demonstration of competence by the interrogator. Competence – i.e. a method, the development of a previously prepared strategy, the progressive discovery of the plan followed by the detective…
More than 170 participants from all over the world, 120 presentations, interesting Q&As. Over the weekend of September 13-15, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan hosted the 11th Screenwriting Research Network Conference. (You can…
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Narrative pleasure relies on a bunch of underlying ideas: that good and evil exist; that people can change; that change isn’t easy; that the effort to change and improve should result into a reward (see…
The Punisher, Mindhunter, Lost in Space, Jessica Jones, Bloodline, Gypsy, Seven Seconds, Luke Cage. What do all these shows have in common? Yes, they all stream on Netflix. But there’s more… They all have been…
Read the PostNetflix, “Slow-Burning TV,” and Narrative Quality