« This is what sucks about screenwriting. Unlike a novel, a screenplay is not a \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdfinal\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd art form. However beautifully written, it\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds essentially a plan for making a movie. And plans change. […]<\/p>\n
So, knowing that things will get changed, and quite possibly ruined, how does the screenwriter avoid creative paralysis?<\/p>\n
You have to embrace the chaos on some level. Moviemaking is like white-water rafting. You know you\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdre going to get from point A to point B, but it\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds going to be scary along the way. You\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdll have to paddle your ass off. You might get thrown from the boat. But if you make it down in one piece, that\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds success. »<\/p>\n
From the blog<\/a> of screenwriter John August<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" « This is what sucks about screenwriting. Unlike a novel, a screenplay is not a \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdfinal\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd art form. However beautifully written, it\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds essentially a plan for making a movie. And plans change. […] So, knowing that things will get changed, and quite possibly ruined, how does the screenwriter avoid creative paralysis? You have to embrace… Continue reading Embracing chaos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}