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To test a person's character, give that person power. Then wait. These screenplays examine the moral depths and horror that extreme income inequality and deprivation would drive people to explore. Horror fills the lives of those forced into a corner by systematic, destructive greed. These are the people who have to decide which child can eat dinner tonight and which child has to wait until breakfast tomorrow. They sell everything they own until there...
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Three feature-length screenplays: High Note, Double Life, and The Underdogs. In High Note, vocal student Laura Celt must clear her name of the murder of her idol. In Double Life, a pop diva and a scientist dodge terrorists and government agents while on a quest to prevent insects from being weaponized. In The Underdogs, an undocumented migrant and a homeless man team up against corruption in a Florida town. From the murder mystery of High Note, to...
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Find your voice -- write your unique story that sells!
Everyone has a story. Whether it is a drama, thriller, comedy, or horror, writing a screenplay is about finding your voice as a writer and writing your own unique story that will come alive through plays or movies.
This book will show you the fundamentals that are essential to writing a compelling screenplay that will pull the readers in, and sell, by using your own memoirs, or life, as a...
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"People have forgotten how to be funny," says Chris Vogler in his foreword to What Are You Laughing at? Luckily, experienced and award-winning humor writer Brad Schreiber is here to remind us all how it's done. If laughter is the best medicine, be prepared to feel fit as a fiddle after perusing these pages. Brad's clever wit and well-timed punch lines are sure to leave you grasping your sides, while his wise advice will ensure that you're able to...
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Seasoned screenwriter, playwright, and script doctor Jack Fitzgerald knows the sting of rejection all too well. In Roger Should Have Said Yes, he shares details of his personal journey as he attempted to sell screenplays in Hollywood, along with four unproduced screenplays that leave it up to others to decide whether they are yes or no people. Screenplays included in the anthology include Piece of Cake, in which a young prostitute reinvents her life...
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Lady Windermere misinterprets her husband's interest in an older woman, Mrs. Erlynne, causing a rift that could lead to both marital and societal ruin. Lady Windermere's Fan Is an intriguing tale that examines intention versus outcome in a world driven by perception.
Lady Windermere is a young wife who's concerned by her husband's connection to the mysterious, Mrs. Erlynne. She believes the woman is a threat to her marriage and livelihood. Despite...
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Gertrude Stein in Dayton & Other Plays is the 2nd collection of plays by Louis Phillips, published by World Audience. This collection is an excellent, eclectic mix of plays by accomplished and award-winning playwright, who has been produced in New York City and regional theater. The plays are poignant and humorous, powerful and articulate. A must buy!
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Mirror-me tech: Take new heart, while self-publishing your book will be a technical process, you don't need to be an academic or a HTML programmer. I've done the hard work, so you don't have to. By the time you turn the final page of this manual, you'll be able to say, "I did it. You can too!" In eBook and paperback now, Includes 300 plus color pictures
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The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van"
From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of The Lady in the Van-soon to be a major motion picture starring Dame Maggie Smith.
The Lady in the Van is the true story of Bennett's experiences with an eccentric homeless...
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The insider's guide and perfect companion to the film starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Vanessa Redgrave.
Stunning and surreal, Lulu on the Bridge is a romantic mystery with a lot on its mind. It is the story of Izzy and Celia, two lonely, wounded, and mismatched strangers, transformed into soul mates by the uncanny powers of a phosphorescent stone. Destiny, as well as some bizarre and near-tragic circumstances, conspire to keep the lovers...
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"It's showtime! Intriguing, astonishing, standing ovations, hilarious, breathtaking, soul stirring, powerful, and showstopping."
Introducing Jacqueline Sutton Ball! One of the greatest African American female playwrights of all time! This book shows God's love and grace through her well-written and family-friendly gospel stage plays. Her storylines demonstrate everyday life situations that audiences can relate to.
They are integrating messages...
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Little Abigail Buffington was dangerously ill from eating a whole box of chocolates that her parents had hidden away for Christmas. Her feverish dreams transported her to the fabulous Land of Chocolate. But, her dreams gradually deteriorated, and she descended into a perilous and demonic domain. She was saved by her unassailable, innocence and escaped to enjoy Christmas with her greatly, relieved parents and visiting grandmother.
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From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s.
Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross...
17) Spray Em' Up
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After leading a successful mission to take out Iraqi warlord Samhal Hussein, Sgt John Williams is hailed as a Hero by the U.S Army. However, when he returns to the South Bronx he finds his neighborhood being oppressed by a neighborhood drug kingpin.With the NYPD scared, and residents feeling powerless, John realizes that he has to declare his own war on terror to save his neighborhood and protect his community.
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Squire: What's this? Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver? Francis: Gulliver's Travels, my lord. Squire: Ah, the Reverend Swift! Splendid story. Big people and little people. Steward: Very well-known, sir. Francis: My lord, to be frank, it s not only a matter of big and little. There are things about it, sir, words are spoken, certain actions performed that... Squire: Perform it now. For our pleasure. Or Henry here will...
19) Send Me Wings
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This story begins in Charleston, South Carolina. Ron and Sarah Boggs have the sorrowful task of finalizing Sarah's mother's estate. While meeting with the attorney, Mr. Lyndsay, they learn her mother has left her an old church in Hopetown, Virginia. Sarah seems troubled by this inheritance and Ron becomes very curious about the real estate prospect. After much encouragement, Ron convinces Sarah to travel to Hopetown. Ron feels there could be a financial...
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Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio's invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result.
Frederic Tuten, in Vogue magazine, wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn...Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in...
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