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How a Director’s Bible Saved His Movie From Disaster
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One of the most famous movies in the world was almost never released. The only thing that saved it was a secret notebook. The story of The Godfather's Notebook.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:24 The Setup
02:40 Coppola Takes Over
03:53 The Secret Notebook
09:16 Production is Hell
13:09 The Editing Room
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The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) from 1945 to 1955. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
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How an Episode of Succession is Written
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The Wolf of Snow Hollow Scene Breakdown with Writer/Director Jim Cummings
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Ever wonder how they wrote the TV show Lost? Hear from Damon Lindelof, JJ Abrams, and Carlton Cuse about their experiences in the writers' room and how they created one of the biggest TV shows in history. Chapters: 00:00 Preface 01:08 1. Structure 03:43 2. Flashbacks 07:04 3. The Writing Room 12:17 4. Writing With Meaning 16:29 5. The Voice of Lost 18:18 6. Character 19:34 7. Research 20:18 8. ...
How Stanley Kubrick Turned Good Books into Great Movies
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How They Made a Movie on a Computer
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“How To Sell A Screenplay” According to Pro Literary Manager
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Join our Discord server and tell me what your favorite film is: discord.gg/xxTqXXd Jon Hersh, literary manager, gives insight into the film industry that will help you get closer to becoming a professional screenwriter. His "two script" idea is an obvious but practical way to help you sell your screenplay or get writing assignments. Join the public Behind the Curtain discord to discuss film: di...
Simon Rich’s Subtle Genius on Writing Comedy That Sticks
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How Pro Screenwriters Create Characters
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How Jim Cummings Made Thunder Road (without Hollywood)
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Screenwriting Lessons from the Writer of Fight Club
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What Screenwriters Can Learn from Black Mirror
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  • @ryanhowell4492
    @ryanhowell4492 15 годин тому

    cool

  • @davidstevens3934
    @davidstevens3934 19 годин тому

    Great show. It actually took me 3 attempts before i got into it. But will be starting it again soon

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 20 годин тому

    I have absolutely nothing but respect for those people who get a job and have true success but me personally think that any country at all that is ok with one citizen having billions of dollars while simultaneously there are citizens of the same state in the same country trying to exist on as little as 1000 dollars a month. that is a broken part of or never addressed aspect to our "way" of living in this world. eventually the people weight of poverty will be too much for the country to bear

  • @BodyTrust
    @BodyTrust День тому

    I don't really know my characters until the second or third draft.

  • @beingsolitary1048
    @beingsolitary1048 2 дні тому

    Who are all hate tarantino speech 😂

  • @livannal.t.9068
    @livannal.t.9068 3 дні тому

    "the writers are not from television" well, neither are a lot of writers or 'storytellers' if you will. its practically commonplace that so many people who pen successful and widely popular stories are just people whove lived the life or adjacent to what theyre talking about. who one day decided to pick up the pen.

  • @TranceSFX
    @TranceSFX 4 дні тому

    "You FUCKIN D-story!"

  • @nathansmith5841
    @nathansmith5841 4 дні тому

    Greatest show ever created in the history of TV

  • @theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439
    @theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439 6 днів тому

    The real danger of this video is how it takes Tarantino's words and makes it suit its own assertions going as far as presuming to know 100% what he was referring to (which is simply not true) and then the arrogance of naming actual scenes that got scrapped or not. You don't know that! It's BS.

  • @mnemonic6047
    @mnemonic6047 7 днів тому

    it's basically a truman experience

  • @vario6492
    @vario6492 8 днів тому

    When your studio cares about the quality instead of politics

  • @MsBob314
    @MsBob314 8 днів тому

    The three most commercially successful here are Gerwig, Tarantino and Gilligan. Interesting the range of techniques. One thing in common is that they write the shit out of their screenplays, the one exception being Resevoir dogs, which was written in two weeks. I’ve written 30* scripts and gotten two features made. I’m def a structure guy.

  • @flipjupiter5077
    @flipjupiter5077 10 днів тому

    This guy is a douchebag. Who ever he is.

  • @lgnoraa1985
    @lgnoraa1985 11 днів тому

    Why is greta in this? Her movies suck.

  • @endlessfreedomful
    @endlessfreedomful 11 днів тому

    one of the best just in the last few years? man, this show is one of GOAT.

  • @Skipray_Blastboat
    @Skipray_Blastboat 11 днів тому

    Goyer is a hack who got lucky that he had the Nolans to bounce off of to get things even close to right.

  • @MakeMeCare89
    @MakeMeCare89 11 днів тому

    Vince Gilligan doesnt get to meat of what writing is. He sounds like an uncle who cant teach like just say you put a show together that made us want to live in that world.

    • @joeldeakin2003
      @joeldeakin2003 4 дні тому

      Didn't hear a single wrong thing with what he said. Don't force the story into something it's not, even if you think you have a good idea it's not good if it doesn't work within the rest of the story. When writing take time to think about what the story is before you start writing. If working in a group, do that together. Help the story come together through collaboration and an understanding of where each characters head should be in each given scene. Don't make the downfalls of characters come from sudden stupidity as that is just an easy way out and feels disappointing when you have made them out to be so smart in the past. Use the things you have set up in the past to come back to later to not only make the work easier but also make it feel a lot more fleshed out and cohesive and in line with the world that you have established within the story. All of this is expanded upon the comments made in this video. If you think these points are useless I encourage you to write something half as good without them

    • @MakeMeCare89
      @MakeMeCare89 23 години тому

      ​@@joeldeakin2003or how just saying that you want to write because you want or love the attention.........It's not that hard considering that young and thirsty people like myself have had to sit through these bullshit lessons.

    • @joeldeakin2003
      @joeldeakin2003 22 години тому

      @@MakeMeCare89 maybe you wouldn't have to sit through them any longer if you listened a bit harder to what they were saying the first time around. Everything I said was the exact same as what was said in the video just expanded upon because you didn't seem to understand it when he delivered it in a more condensed matter. What part of his or anybody else's writing screams I want attention, rather elaborate plan just to gain pity points in conversation don't you think? Would probably be easier just to be talented at your craft but who's to say, you've probably never been talented at anything if you're judging someone in that way.

  • @actuallynotsteve
    @actuallynotsteve 12 днів тому

    Esmail is a genius, this show completely deserves so much more love, and Darlene is the baddest baddie to ever baddie. I'll die on any of these hills.

  • @enterthebruce91
    @enterthebruce91 13 днів тому

    Nic Pizzolatto, Terence Winter, George Pelecanos, and J.T Rogers. HBO has, and has had; some of the best T.V writers ever.

  • @patricksleep9787
    @patricksleep9787 16 днів тому

    I just finished this masterpiece last week and boy what a ride, the fact that it's already a decade old since it finished and people still talk about it/ even make memes shows how much care and love it was made from. My only regret about watching the show is the fact that I didn't watch it as soon as possible.

  • @adavis5926
    @adavis5926 18 днів тому

    Loved True Detective. Loved Pizzolatto's discussion on it. Now, back to working on my own novel, inspired.

  • @ru4realzzz
    @ru4realzzz 19 днів тому

    that disney 4 page sequence breakdown is why finding dory and the incredibles 2 were both bigger pile of garbages than the one at the end of toy story 3.

  • @jeromebell1245
    @jeromebell1245 20 днів тому

    Hi, please can you tell me what original source interview is the Charlie Kaufman stuff from? Especially the bit around 8mins 53 secs in your video where he talks about writing dialogue before he really knows what the characters would say? Thanks

  • @doomsdaymonster7
    @doomsdaymonster7 23 дні тому

    I would say the only other show that knew how to end was Sons of Anarchy.

  • @maxclough-lr9bo
    @maxclough-lr9bo 23 дні тому

    Won't ever be the same without Justin :'(

  • @clausbohm9807
    @clausbohm9807 23 дні тому

    GREAT VIDEO! When I wrote my book I had enough of an idea to get to the middle of the text, it was only after that, that i was able to finish it. Funny how it worked out that way ...

  • @U2B2024
    @U2B2024 24 дні тому

    Easily the best show of all time.

  • @paulkfilms
    @paulkfilms 25 днів тому

    I think filmmaking is changing for the better. Like Jim said, majority of big movies suck right now. But there are incredibly talented filmmakers out there, so why aren't they being hired? Pretty obvious why, but that's not important for this. Point is, the artist, for huge budget films, are not allowed to be the artist, for the most part. So the passionate filmmakers are finding other way to make THEIR films. And I'm 100% for it. Sunday, I'm going to a film festival to watch a film made by Danny Gevirtz, where funding for the feature film came entirely from youtube viewers and creators. Now whether the film is good or not, it's his first feature, isn't that important, but the fact that he never had to pitch to studios or execs, is groundbreaking. More independent studios are popping up, talented film makers like Jim are paving their own way. And gosh golly darn it........ I will too.

  • @acacia_alexander
    @acacia_alexander 27 днів тому

    Greta Gerwig is so brilliant

  • @lord_scrubington
    @lord_scrubington 28 днів тому

    thank you for this long video of writers contradicting each other and ultimately giving very little advice since everybody's creative mind works in a very different way. real useful content

    • @ghostpotatoes
      @ghostpotatoes 18 днів тому

      that's the whole point. it's a trove of advice not only offering you many approaches to try but also overall telling you that there is no exact formula you can use, so you shouldn't feel you're using a wrong approach. you seeing it as "little advice" is only because you were looking for some cheap and easy way to the top of a creative skill, which was never a possibility. it is your own failure to gain from this, not the video author and not the original creatives. hell it even gives you insight you can correlate between a directors style and their process; you could compare it to what you want to do, but you're too busy complaining to see that.

  • @cristinawilligs
    @cristinawilligs 29 днів тому

    you lost me at far right conspiracy theorist, fuck you, your industry is fucked,

  • @BillPeschel
    @BillPeschel Місяць тому

    My biggest takeaway from this is that you have to put in the work, and to be comfortable with the fact that the story will change, and it should change, because you're not going to know everything at first. Although there are even exceptions to that; there are authors who have written a novel in a few days, but they're so experienced at storytelling, and the story had been brewing in their head for years, or it's a very personal story. Be flexible; be willing to revise; but when you're satisfied don't second-guess yourself. Some of these writers have produced "Meh" screenplays. Accept it will happen to you and move on.

  • @themelancholyofgay3543
    @themelancholyofgay3543 Місяць тому

    amazing...

  • @mrsupertash
    @mrsupertash Місяць тому

    Is the answer "everything you should avoid"? Lost is an overexcited 8-year-olds idea of a cool story. Oh, they find a hatch and there's a polar bear and and... A work where anything goes and nothing holds together. I have no idea how it managed to enthrall so many people. As soon as it was clear that there's so much utter random shit going on that the only possible conclusion is that everyone's dead and this is the last flickering of their synapses and Lindelof and Abrams are reveling in the fact that they don't even have to try to make any sense whatsoever and can throw anything they want at their "story machine" it was absolutely dead for me because nothing at all was at stake. That was season 2 episode 1. And I only watched that far because I gave it the benefit of a doubt. No idea how it mass hypnotized everyone back then. Maybe I'll find out watching this video. Never too late to become enlightened. edit: "I've had writers when they were getting teased or abused would get kinda hostile." lol. I'd say abusing writers is a hostile act, no? So is hostility then not the expected reaction if you also want them to not "be a pussy"? Seems hostility is how it was shown that you are not. Incredible.

  • @snoopsnoop4561
    @snoopsnoop4561 Місяць тому

    ......or read Agatha Christi

  • @curoi555
    @curoi555 Місяць тому

    Season 1 is almost a pastiche. Lifting from Ligotti, comic books etc. without properly crediting them. I don't like that. You should always acknowledge your inspirations, especially when people have clearly pointed it out. Spoiled the memory of the show for me a little.

  • @rooboatdeer22yu51
    @rooboatdeer22yu51 Місяць тому

    Sympathy is it sucks to be you and empathy is i understand what youve been through using my imagination and heart. Many empaths only feel sympathy.

  • @myautobiographyafanfic1413
    @myautobiographyafanfic1413 Місяць тому

    The idea of a serial TV writer talking about structure is ridiculous. Literally every other writer is explaining why that's a bad idea, and a dumb storytelling format

  • @flymetomatteo
    @flymetomatteo Місяць тому

    How do I move on from SS1? I just can't O_o

  • @TrevanDotCom
    @TrevanDotCom Місяць тому

    This just goes to show that anyone can make anything amazing. Nick had never even written a script before. Writes his first 6 and one of them in True Detective Season. I mean, that is absolutely incredible.

  • @gianthills
    @gianthills Місяць тому

    read scripts? I have. They are exactly the same as the movie. Nothing mysterious about it. You do not need a perfect script. The reality is, even if you have written good scripts, there are more scripts out there than there are production companies, so the odds are against you. Established companies have a network of resources to acquire scripts. They have no reason to give you the time of day.

  • @dashx1103
    @dashx1103 Місяць тому

    What Lost teaches us about storytelling? A: Don't tell stories like Lost did. Make the stories make sense. Things that happen early should matter later. Don't just throw stuff against the wall. That is my takeaway.

  • @jakefromabove_og
    @jakefromabove_og Місяць тому

    You stole from better writers, thats how

  • @katarinakrnjevic8183
    @katarinakrnjevic8183 Місяць тому

    Mad men is of the best tv dramas of late 2000s and early 2010s . Many actors become very famous after this show ended . There also many shows that tried to be like mad men (Pam am ,masters of sex ,magic city)

  • @Intimatycal
    @Intimatycal Місяць тому

    You wrote WHAT exactly? Jesus fk

  • @phantomfire8228
    @phantomfire8228 Місяць тому

    6:46

  • @bradleykendall962
    @bradleykendall962 Місяць тому

    This is the dvd extras. Nothing original here. I listened to this years ago. Yawn.

  • @theravenman
    @theravenman Місяць тому

    This video doesn't tell you anything

  • @manufilms29
    @manufilms29 Місяць тому

    I just started binging on Mad Men. This guy is a genius… make sense now why this show is so relatable