The Official Weekly Single Thread

[Paul_Denton]

No. When scott gave me the list your name was not on it. Sorry. Adding you now.

[pcottraux]

You just need to hang on tighter this time.

[Paul_Denton]

I am sorry to hear that :( Same on your boss for doing that to you.

Congrats on finishing your script. My writing is slow going here. I hope yours wins.

I never even heard of this house you are talking about.

[pcottraux]

I agree with you on most Disney movies. Animation-wise, I prefer Bugs.

[Rca2000]

Probably about a month or more ago-- about the time I began rewriting this story into a script. Since the day after Thanksgiving, however it has REALLY been bad-- no let-up.

[Paul_Denton]

No I havnt. Will it have Kiera Knightley again? I hope hehe/

[pcottraux]

Oh, yes.

I'm making a big prediction about Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest. I think it's going to be like "The Empire Strikes Back": darker, more intense, more involving with the characters. I've heard their may even be some shocking plot twists on the same level of "Luke, I am you father!"

[pcottraux]

You can see it here.

[Paul_Denton]

I like realism in all fields. That includes combat. I like violence done tastefully too though.

[Paul_Denton]

very cool! :)

[Paul_Denton]

Thanks for the link :)

[Rca2000]

I am having trouble getting my treatment(synopsis) of my script down to 500 words. Currently, it is at 945. The story itself was 58k words or so. I wonder: will I be frowned upon if I sent in a treatment that is longer than 500 words, OR will someone take the work into account, for what it contains, not a few "format errors", (after all, I AM a first-timer at this, with ABSOLUTELY no training in this)

My log line is :what was meant to protect the Earth, now threatens it's survival.

[Paul_Denton]

Very cool! Looks like Disney is pulling out all the stops for that one. The people starving in the cages and the guy being roasted alive is not something Disney has done before. That looks VERY good.

[pcottraux]

I have a little training in script writing, though I haven't finished one myself. Working slowly on that.

Editing is one of the toughest and most heartbreaking parts of moviemaking. It's also one of the most essential. A story I heard once: editor and director are in the cutting room. The editor says, "we should cut that scene." The director desperately fights it at first. He even says, "when I read that scene in the script, that was the moment I knew I could make this picture!" But he resigned that the editor was right. The scene was removed.

[pcottraux]

I'm real hopeful about it. Hope I don't get my expectations too high.

[Paul_Denton]

synopsis is hard to do. I made a draft of one but it will probably change. I hope they still accept it. I too have zero experiance and training in writing.

102 Earth Standard Years ago, resistance fighters won a hard fought war of independence against the Eastern Alliance, battering them and driving the few survivors into the depths of uncharted space, and establishing the Colonial Federation in the process. The Colonial Federation eventually became the pinnacle of civilization and a beacon of freedom. Settlements were built and the warmth of liberty spread throughout space. Just days after a corporate survey ship jumped into the supposedly uncharted Epsilon Ceti system, the news came that the Eastern Alliance not only survived, but had established itself as a formidable military power complete with a vast army of genetically enhanced soldiers and an equally formidable navy. The "Commonwealth" as it now called itself wasted no time in initiating hostilities by backing insurgents and using nano-virus weapons against Colonial Federation worlds, killing millions in days. Their goal is the extermination of those who live on and around what they call 'the sacred planet.' All that stands between freedom and extinction is a rogue A.I., a squad of Marines and their dropship pilot.

[Paul_Denton]

It is probably the same in writing. I am going to do my best at keeping my story uncut should it get published.

[pcottraux]

Still, unfortunately, cutting is essential to a story's success. It hurts, but scenes that interrupt the story's flow, wonderful on their own they may be, they gotta' go. In my own script, I've had to painfully cut a lot of things.

The deleted scenes on the Star Wars DVDs are interesting. In Revenge of the Sith, there was a scene toward the end showing Yoda flying to the Dagoba planet to live in exile.

[Rca2000]

The same goes for me. The last thing in my story, is when the two Scientists FIANLLY get married, as guests of the President,in the Rose garden at the White House. In the Lincoln bedroom, on the wedding night, the finally give themselves to each other. They tell each other that they were each worth waiting for.

I do NOT go into details in that regard, as I want to keep things at a PG level or less, but it is VERY important, that the thread of the two main characters keeping their purity, until the night of their wedding, I feel that is a MUST, in my story.

[Paul_Denton]

I never knew that. It is too bad there are no such things as Unrated and Uncut edtions of novels.

I wish the Deleted Scenes were kept in Star Wars. I liked the way Bail and Mon were forming the Rebel Alliance and I liked the Yoda scene. Shaak Ti's scene was painful (she was very pretty) but it also did add to the movie's darkness and grittyness.