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Hello.

Do you read sometimes read screenplays, either downloaded or in book form? If so, perhaps you can recommend me a well-realized, plotty (and decently formatted) script that isn't crappy. What are some good scripts that you have read recently and why?

Also - if you download, what form do you read them in? Do you print the whole thing up? At work perhaps?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

There's shitload of freely available screenplays online... "Network" or "Chinatown" are the best.

Please don't tell us you're going to write a screenplay. Please, no...

― andy, Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

Haha! No comment, obviously.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

I've read both of those, however. Good recommendations, though.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

First one I ever read was for True Romance 10 years back and I loved it.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

I read so many shitty screenplays when I worked in film, the very idea of voluntarily reading them now makes me wince.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

I was waiting for you.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry. Not very helpful.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

It's okay. Don't be sorry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

Krzysztof Kieslowski and Dennis Potter always read well. Why do you want to read them?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

agreed, the screenplay for the singing detective is available as a paperback and is worth reading even if you haven't seen the series. It's very well written and evocative.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

Rod Serling's "Requiem For A Heavyweight": best screenplay ever.

― andy, Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

Rod Serling just drives me insane.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

ten years pass...

Has anyone ever submitted a screenplay to one of those competitions you have to pay to enter? I've seen it recommended a number of places, but it really sounds like scam to me...

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link

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