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Lessons from the Screenplay
A more informed audience raises the bar for storytelling. That examining the techniques used to tell great stories makes your own writing better and your appreciation for the stories deeper. Lessons from the Screenplay makes videos that analyze movie scripts to examine exactly how and why they are so good at telling their story. Part educational series and part love letter to awesome films, Lessons from the Screenplay aims to be a fun way to learn more about your favorite films and help us all…
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Seasons (8)
Season 2016
- 1Gone Girl — Don't Underestimate the Screenwriter8 Jun 2016
- 2Independence Day — What Makes It So Great21 Jun 2016
- 3How Ghostbusters Became Ghostbusters5 Jul 2016
- 4American Beauty (Part 1) — The Art of Character26 Jul 2016
- 5American Beauty (Part 2) — The Missing 27 Pages2 Aug 2016
- 6The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist23 Aug 2016
- 7Nightcrawler — Empathy for the Antihero13 Sep 2016
- 8Moonrise Kingdom — Where Story Meets Style4 Oct 2016
- 9The Shining — Quietly Going Insane Together25 Oct 2016
- 10Whiplash vs. Black Swan — The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist22 Nov 2016
- 11Ex Machina — The Control of Information20 Dec 2016
Season 2017
- 1The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration31 Jan 2017
- 2When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions14 Feb 2017
- 3Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense14 Mar 2017
- 4Breaking Bad — Crafting a TV Pilot4 Apr 2017
- 5Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens — The Fault in Our Star Wars30 Apr 2017
- 6Arrival — Examining an Adaptation24 May 2017
- 7True Detective vs. Se7en — Creating Light Amongst the Dark15 Jun 2017
- 8Telling a Story from the Inside Out29 Jun 2017
- 9Game of Thrones — How to Evoke Emotion14 Jul 2017
- 10Memento — Telling a Story in Reverse22 Aug 2017
- 11Blade Runner — Constructing a Future Noir26 Sep 2017
- 12Logan vs. Children of Men — The End is in the Beginning12 Oct 2017
- 13Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots21 Nov 2017
Season 2018
- 1The Avengers — Defining an Act26 Jan 2018
- 2The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Breaking Convention30 Jan 2018
- 3Get Out — A New Perspective in Horror27 Feb 2018
- 4Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone28 Mar 2018
- 5Collateral — The Midpoint Collision27 Apr 2018
- 6The Last Jedi — Forcing Change31 May 2018
- 7Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character29 Jun 2018
- 8Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain24 Jul 2018
- 9Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist31 Jul 2018
- 10No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience24 Aug 2018
- 11A Quiet Place — How to Write Sound into a Screenplay31 Aug 2018
- 12Shaun of the Dead — Why Comedy Needs Character31 Oct 2018
- 13The Devil Wears Prada — The First 10 Pages24 Nov 2018
- 14Good Will Hunting — The Psychology of Character30 Nov 2018
- 15Annihilation — The Art of Self-Destruction30 Dec 2018
Season 2019
- 1Groundhog Day — An Inescapable Premise2 Feb 2019
- 2Searching — Reformatting a Thriller8 Feb 2019
- 3The Silence of the Lambs — Dissecting a Scene28 Feb 2019
- 4Adaptation.1 Apr 2019
- 5One Marvelous Scene — Spider-Man: Homecoming22 Apr 2019
- 6Minority Report — When the Story World Becomes the Villain31 May 2019
- 7The Hidden Structure of Before Sunset19 Jul 2019
- 8The Matrix — Exposition in Action31 Jul 2019
- 9Aliens vs. Terminator 2 — How to Sequel like James Cameron8 Oct 2019
- 10The Last of Us (feat. Writer & Creative Director Neil Druckmann) | @Story Mode4 Dec 2019
Season 2020
- 1Casino Royale — How Action Reveals Character27 Feb 2020
- 2Parasite — The Power of Symbols26 Mar 2020
- 3Parasite vs. Sunset Boulevard — The Disillusionment Arc30 Apr 2020
- 4Iron Man vs. Captain America — The 11-Year Character Arc29 May 2020
- 5Jaws — Assembling a Top-Tier Team (feat. @TierZoo)19 Jun 2020
- 6Mad Men — Layers of Meaning26 Jun 2020
- 7One X-Cellent Scene — Attack on Division X23 Jul 2020
- 8How The Outer Worlds Builds Companion Relationships31 Jul 2020
- 9The Rules (Guidelines) of Adventure — The Pirates of the Caribbean13 Aug 2020
- 10Christopher Nolan vs. Interstellar — The Nolan Crosscut31 Aug 2020
- 11How Stranger Things Conveys Tone and Style29 Sep 2020
- 12How Coraline Borrows from Ancient Forms of Storytelling22 Oct 2020
- 13I started a second channel! Check out @Story Mode17 Nov 2020
- 14A Few Good Men — Writing a Final Battle27 Nov 2020
- 15How A Christmas Carol Perfectly Demonstrates Five-Act Structure18 Dec 2020
Season 2021
- 1The Soul of Good Character Design11 Feb 2021
- 2How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life27 May 2021
- 3Why Mass Effect Should Be the Next Game of Thrones10 Jun 2021
- 4What's new on my other channels5 Nov 2021
Season 2022
- 1The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby | @BeyondTheScreenplay30 Nov 2022