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    I've noticed in a few screenplays, that the writer will use humor not in dialogue, but in the action description.

    The guy who wrote Lethal Weapon (Shane Black?)described a house of a villain as, "The type of place I would buy if this script gets made".

    Also, just the other day I was reading through a Buffy TV script "Phases", and it had just finished an act, but at the start of the next one, it led in with the re-cap description, and tagged to the end was "Remember?" (which I thought was quiet funny and witty).

    I know this probably contributes to a 'good read', but does anyone here know of any other examples where the cinema viewer will not see the 'hidden humor' of a script? And is it even wise to use this type of humor?

    EJ

    PS: I want to know what you all did this weekend. What you all ate. Who you sleept with and how often.

    :b

    Only joking.


  • #2
    Won the lottery
    Cheeseburgers
    Jennifer Lopez
    14

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    • #3
      Liar

      Lopez, pleaze! She surely couldn't have made it to your house in that 30 sec break we had.

      :rolleyes

      EJ

      PS: Adds a new spin to 'Gone in 60 seconds' though.

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      • #4
        Re: Liar

        EJ - Shane Black is noted for writing in that manner, which is normally considered improper. Probably not a good idea to emulate the style.

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        • #5
          What the others have said...

          Won the lottery.
          Cheese burgers, cheese burgers, cheese burgers.
          J-lo.
          Once was not enough.
          Don't do what Shane Black does.

          I sometimes throw in a witty line or two, but it's in HOW I describe things, not things that can't be seen. I figure if I just have to crack-wise I might as well do it within the description I'm allowed in a script. If I have to "break the rules" to get off a funny, it's trying too hard for a laugh... and that's a sign of desperation and weakness. If I acted desperate and weak, J-lo would probably go back to P-Diddy.

          - Bill

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          • #6
            I don't ever talk directly to the reader like Shane Black did, though I do use humor for descriptions, especially if it's in a pulp fiction type of script.

            Got arrested
            Made bail
            got drunk and wrote.....i think it was a screenplay
            Angelina Jolie
            STILL counting.

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            • #7
              Participated in the stoning of Bill and Don after they won "The Lottery."

              Dunked a chili-dog in chocolate milk, berfore consuming.

              J-E-L-L-O

              Only once, I hate when people put bits of fruit in d'ere.

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              • #8
                The only lottery I ever won was the one in 1971 that was going to put me in the Army. If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky. Right, 'Don?

                <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> "Group W, move over and make room on the bench." <!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

                (Gore guy - I read that story in Junior year. 'Ought-six, I think.)

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