Moviewise | Behold the Perfect Screenplay @Moviewise | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Is there such a thing as a perfect screenplay?
Hold my ninth domestic gin.
In this video essay, we'll travel along the perfection that is "All About Eve", by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. We'll see how terrific are the characters (the foundation of any script), the plot and the mouth-wateringly gorgeous dialogue. I may or may not get carried away when discussing rhetorical devices.
As always, we'll also take a nit-picky look at scripts that failed on their way to quality, such as Doc Ock's innapropriate staccato line in "Spider-Man: No Way Home", or George Lucas's unexemplary dialogue in "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith".
00:00 Character
01:17 Anatomy of a line (Spider-Man: No Way Home)
03:15 All About Eve
04:53 Plot: Eve meets Margo
05:57 Plot: Birdie's suspicion
06:36 Thinking OF X Thinking ABOUT
07:05 Plot: Bill's party
07:41 Subtext
09:55 Plot: Eve's rise
10:12 Hendiadys
11:26 going overboard on a line from "The Boys"
12:29 Words, a character's soul
13:11 Mixed Metaphors
13:43 Plot: Karen's revenge
14:00 Dialogue - Advanced
14:35 Plot: Eve's success
16:21 More on subtext
Copyright free photos from Unsplash
Copyright free music "Sexy" from Bensound
Consort for Brass - Classical Rousing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN110068
Artist: incompetech.com
Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303
Artist: incompetech.com
Scheming Weasel (faster version) by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/scheming-weasel
Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/2CapGaKMsWU
Is there such a thing as a perfect screenplay?
Hold my ninth domestic gin.
In this video essay, we'll travel along the perfection that is "All About Eve", by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. We'll see how terrific are the characters (the foundation of any script), the plot and the mouth-wateringly gorgeous dialogue. I may or may not get carried away when discussing rhetorical devices.
As always, we'll also take a nit-picky look at scripts that failed on their way to quality, such as Doc Ock's innapropriate staccato line in "Spider-Man: No Way Home", or George Lucas's unexemplary dialogue in "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith".
00:00 Character
01:17 Anatomy of a line (Spider-Man: No Way Home)
03:15 All About Eve
04:53 Plot: Eve meets Margo
05:57 Plot: Birdie's suspicion
06:36 Thinking OF X Thinking ABOUT
07:05 Plot: Bill's party
07:41 Subtext
09:55 Plot: Eve's rise
10:12 Hendiadys
11:26 going overboard on a line from "The Boys"
12:29 Words, a character's soul
13:11 Mixed Metaphors
13:43 Plot: Karen's revenge
14:00 Dialogue - Advanced
14:35 Plot: Eve's success
16:21 More on subtext
Copyright free photos from Unsplash
Copyright free music "Sexy" from Bensound
Consort for Brass - Classical Rousing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN110068
Artist: incompetech.com
Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303
Artist: incompetech.com
Scheming Weasel (faster version) by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/scheming-weasel
Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/2CapGaKMsWU
