Best movie dialogue of all time

We'll revisit this later when we start talking about dialogue in movies, but these clips might also be useful for your podcast script.

Annie Wilkes on Writing

I've been looking at clips from King books that were made into movies, and one of my favorites is Misery, in part because Cathy Bates is so amazing (she's excellent in the another SK remake, Dolores Claiborne. Here is a clip from Misery where she is explaining to the writer/captive that he can't cheat in his writing; he can't make it all a dream, or give the main character an emergency blood transfusion--he has to figure out a way to get her out of the grave, because that's where the last book ended. I like this advice. You write yourself into a corner, you have to write yourself out. You can't use trickery or fake it, because your reader/audience will call you out.

Story Structure

I love this excerpt about storytelling structure in cinema. I've only seen about half of these--maybe less than half. What have I been doing with my time? Not watching The Gilmore Girls, that's for sure. More on that later (maybe). I don't like how the two main characters talk to each other in these quippy, unreal ways.

We'll talk more about these approaches to story-telling in class on Thursday.