Re: Casablanca, Aliens, Chinatown, American Beauty...
I don't get depressed reading really good writing. If it's really good, I'm usually on the writer's side early in. For instance, Kafka or Flaubert. They're up in the stratosphere, and it's pointless to even try to go there. You just step back and admire, or rather you put yourself with them admire.
As far as screenplays, it's about technique and "story ideas" and self-editing and execution. I'm never blown away by the writing as such.
With screnplays it's more you try to use what you see to make your own stuff better. So it's a very technical read in a way, compared with literature.
I don't get depressed reading really good writing. If it's really good, I'm usually on the writer's side early in. For instance, Kafka or Flaubert. They're up in the stratosphere, and it's pointless to even try to go there. You just step back and admire, or rather you put yourself with them admire.
As far as screenplays, it's about technique and "story ideas" and self-editing and execution. I'm never blown away by the writing as such.
With screnplays it's more you try to use what you see to make your own stuff better. So it's a very technical read in a way, compared with literature.
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