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.
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.
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