lessons from the screenplay

No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience

Ex Machina — The Control of Information

The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration

The Soul of Good Character Design

The Devil Wears Prada — The First 10 Pages

Arrival — Examining an Adaptation

Shaun of the Dead — Why Comedy Needs Character

Minority Report — When the Story World Becomes The Villain

PARALLEL: Screenwriting Trick for Theme Every Writer Needs to Know (Film Analysis)

How Coraline Borrows from Ancient Forms of Storytelling

Parasite — The Power of Symbols

The Hidden Structure of Before Sunset

The Avengers — Defining an Act

The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby | @BeyondTheScreenplay

Christopher Nolan vs. Interstellar — The Nolan Crosscut

Independence Day — What Makes it So Great

How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life

One Marvelous Scene — Spider-Man: Homecoming

Telling a Story from the Inside Out

When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions

A Quiet Place — How to Write Sound into a Screenplay

Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist

Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens — The Fault in Our Star Wars

Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots