The Devil’s Guide To Hollywood (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Go outside the box. Screenwriter/director Jean-Luc Godard: “A film should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” Violate everyone’s privacy. To write the way real people talk, listen to the way real people talk. Pretend you have a scanner in your head and, as people talk, imagine their words running across the screen, complete with punctuation marks, to “see” the words more clearly. A friend of mine who is a screenwriter taped his own phone calls but felt after awhile that his conversations were becoming stilted because he knew he was taping them. So he put a tiny microphone into a flowerpot near a table at a bar and listened to the conversations at that table while he sat across the room with a tiny transmitter in his ear. I have another friend, a phone repairman in L.A. He sits atop a telephone pole for hours every day listening to strangers’ conversations.
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