All posts tagged "George Lucas"
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First Draft: Will You Give Your Audience a Guided Tour of Your Script’s World, Or Throw Them In Head First?
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Who doesn’t love creating a world from scratch? So many...
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Classic Cuts: Three Simple Editing Techniques Employed By The Empire Strikes Back (Video)
The trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the sequel to 2015’s The Force Awakens, dropped this past weekend, a reminder the Star Wars franchise...
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First Draft: Learn Techniques of Story Progression From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Comparing two drafts of a script can be hugely instructive,...
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First Draft: Why A Screenwriter Should Think Like A Film Editor
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. When the original cut of First Blood was first...
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Porn Hacks: What the “Legitimate” Indie Moviemaker Can Pick Up From Pornographers
In the summer of 1977, filmgoers flocked in record numbers to behold the rousing tale of a jejune moppet ripening to vigor and masculinity by...
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Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...