Thanks scriptreaderpro. Best to luck to all of you who are working valiantly on your scripts! OH WOW. I received the subscription email a few days ago and procrastinated before opening this link. And when I finally did, I was half expecting to get merely a few pages and got directed straight to a paid subscription site for the full script. I feel like a kid in a candy store now. Thank you guys so much!!
Thank you! Excellent resource. Hi script read pro! I hope you are haveng a great time I wanted to thank you for sharing this with others and solving the problem of writing a script. If its not too much trouble I would like to ask you some script questions in private. Thanks Hanieh. Hi Hanieh, thanks for the comment — yes please sign up to our newsletter where we answer all reader questions. Tomorrow to name a few.
Thanks very much. Thanks a lot! Hello to the team, Thank YOU! When I were a lad, you had to get on a train, go to a bookshop, and pay actual money for a screenplay. Kids these days!
Never had it so good. Hi Script Reader Pro Thanks so much for posting these great scripts, such a wonderful resource. Thanks, Ali. Script reader pro, you guys are awesome.
I have been working on a project then suddenly I got lost, not knowing what to do. Stumbling upon this page really made my day. Thank you. Please add this Beauty in! Love love LOVE this, thank you soooo much people. A Few Good men is one of my favourites that I would have loved to see too. Great list. Thank you so much! Hi, I really need Stonewall movie script. Can you help me how to get that?
I am having difficult where I can get that. I am gona make analyze about that film as my rules to graduate at mu school. You can email me heruherlambang gmail. I think the movie Women in Love script is great to have, even if I did not see yet. Hope that happens soon. Thank you for this fantastic list! Ermm… could you throw in High Fidelity next time? The usage of the fourth wall is brilliant. Thanks for sharing it with others. A big thank you.
I truly believe these scripts are going to make me a good writer. Thanks a lot. With love Anne! This was the best version we could find.
Reading all these is going to take me some time but thank you so much for this. Thanks Don. You can buy the Roxanne script on Amazon, not sure where you can get version though.
Many Thanks guys, saved all on my iBooks, currently working on my second feature, all these references really help. Thank you so much for sharing. I am new to screenwriting and I will now be able to study screenplays. Thank you again. Thank you for sharing. I would have liked to see a few Fincher screenplays. Also more science fiction like Predestination, Arrival….
The list is impressive, but I would have liked to see Three Days of the Condor among that group of laudable scripts. This is a fabulous haul of screenplays — thanks so much! I especially appreciate being able to download them so I can read them even when not connected to the internet.
If you can give us some of the iconic Rom-Coms I would really appreciate that. Read every one and i enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing this cuz i like reading them. My favourite script id love to read is Ted. Your email address will not be published. And supercharge your screenwriting. Featured In. Like it? Share it! October 6, at Script Reader Pro says:. October 7, at Chyrise says:. September 1, at Marcus Blea says:. August 26, at Cyril Eziamaka says:.
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September 30, at October 3, at September 10, at Ladies and gents, that's the nutshell technique. Chamberlain is a script consultant , so I don't quite know how I feel about that, but I like her approach and thought it was a useful book. Wait, but we're not a book I know we're not a book. But we also cost nothing.
Like, you click here and I write ish articles a week and they're free for you and I talk about everything you'll find in these books and more. We keep talking about making all the articles into an e-book. Maybe we will. Seriously, I wrote this article because some people love to buy books because they think it makes them an expert -- but it truly does not.
You can't buy a bunch of art books and become Picasso. And you can't buy a bunch of screenwriting books to become a screenwriter. That costs only the price of screenwriting software. Unless you pick free screenwriting software. As a fan of her podcast , I was excited to check this book out.
The highlight is that it takes screenwriting ten minutes at a time. When I started out, I was working two jobs to make ends meet and was waking up at 5AM to crank out the pages.
It sucked. This book understands that and is like having a coach there cheering you along. Is there a more prolific and generous writer than Stephen King? This book is an inspiration for writers of any ilk. King walks us through his career, from early struggles to his near-fatal car accident.
Instead of being written like a textbook, this book is written to be enjoyed. Yorke uses fairy tales to expose five-act structure. He builds on the ideas of Aristotle and poetics and takes you through the psychological journey that writers and stories go on as they are constructed. Again, this is more philosophy than craft, but people like that sort of thing. Look, no list is complete without telling you the very best thing you can do is read actual screenplays.
They will teach you formatting, style, structure, and just be inspirational. We try to post them on here with free downloads, but if you Google almost any script named here, you can find it. Or hop on Screenwriting Reddit and they'll help you out, too.
Just read scripts. They're the key. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a force of nature. She can write, act, and produce better than most people on this planet. So what lessons can we learn from her? If you'd like to add a book that focuses on screenplay adaptation, I hope you'll consider "Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling" Routledge , 2nd Place Winner in the International Writers Awards.
Thank you. Happy reading! If you feel that existential dread and a tightening in your chest when you sit down to write, this one will help.
What would you say about a double entry for 3? That is, also mention Syd Field's "The Screenwriter's Workbook," which encapsulates the strategies of his classic but puts them in a workbook format with exercises to do after each chapter. I have found it very useful. Well, the scenarios are interesting, but they are all a bit similar to each other. I want something really interesting. Considering that now we have a lot of good tools for editing and filming available, it would be very beautiful.
You don't need to invent the wheel when the scripts are already there - they are in old books. Skip to main content. No Film School. By Jason Hellerman. October 23, What are the best books on screenwriting? And what can you learn from each of them? Charlie Kaufman has made a name for himself with his innovative screenplays.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a perfect example of this. Kaufman marries the high-concept idea of memory erasure with a deeply emotional story of two people falling in and out of love. Charlie Kaufman understands this and grounds the almost sci-fi-sounding plot in human emotions and experience. One of the best scripts in recent times, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is surreal, dramatic, funny, and philosophical.
Joel is on the verge of letting go. Read the script here or on Kindle for free. This is one of the finest examples of adapting a novel into a feature film. Writer Ted Tally does an excellent job condensing all that happens in a lengthy book into a crisp, two-hour film. Where the script really excels, in my opinion, is in its focus on the characters and their intrinsic motivations.
What the script does really well is showcasing its lead as an at-odds hero. This visual cue intentionally makes her seem less capable to viewers, amplifying the impact when she overcomes great adversities in the end.
A scene either advances the plot or reveals the motive of a certain character. Multiple drafts and rewrites are required to get to such a taut screenplay. Quentin Tarantino wanted to show the rest of the world the Los Angeles that he saw — the grime underbelly, the dirty dealings of the underworld.
So, while being stuck in Amsterdam on a press tour, he and Roger Avary locked themselves up in a hotel room and churned out the script for Pulp Fiction. The rapid-fire dialogue, unconventional story-lines won over critics and landed Tarantino an Oscar for Best Screenplay. One of the reasons Pulp Fiction stands out is because it offers the vicarious thrill of a journey into what seems like a routine, familiar setting that is inhabited with these strange characters and obscure sub cultures, almost as if we were voyeuristically witnessing the underbelly of our own world.
The Fast and The Furious franchise did this with illegal racing, while Point Break did it with surfing. So, as a writer, it might be worth seeking out fresh sub-cultures in lieu of giving viewers an experience of a lifetime. Research it well and try to avoid alternate realities that have already been explored.
Watch Pulp Fiction on Amazon Prime. The Nolan brothers tried to narrate an audacious tale of two different storylines in Memento. But, despite bending the rules, Nolan still gives us a relatable lead in Leonard Shelby. He could be any one of us who just happens to be a subject of misfortune. This makes the process all the more engrossing as we ponder about the events that might transpire. Memento is structured like a paperclip, with color and black and white scenes cutting back and forth.
This type of ingenious structure allows you to end each scene with a cliffhanger. Memento moves back and forth in time differentiated by black and white for the past, and color in the present. The pinnacle of this journey came when Whiplash won three Oscars and narrowly missed out on Best Adapted Screenplay.
The script is filled with rich visual imagery. But, the biggest learning for any aspiring screenwriter or filmmaker is the elements that made Whiplash a story a viable project for producers to get involved in. The action was mostly contained, taking place in a few rooms. Watch Whiplash on Amazon Prime. The gritty retelling of the story of Batman is one of the most celebrated films in the genre. The Nolan brothers took a couple of conscious decisions to stand out from the rest.
The first was the design of the hero as a flawed and, more importantly, mortal being. The problem I face with a lot of superhero movies of late is that they are all-encompassing and are never really under any real danger. But, the protagonist is different here. We see him terrified by bats and get hurt by an actual bullet.
Nolan puts the reluctant hero trope to good use.
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