A rare interview with John Hughes from 1985. After beginning his career in advertising, Hughes would take a meager-paying writing job with National Lampoon for a nickel per word. At National Lampoon, he wrote Vacation ’58, a short story about a family vacation to Disneyland, with one of the best opening lines of all time: [Read more…]
Learn how to write a screenplay through detailed analysis of feature films.
Recent SHT
Breakfast Club Sculpture
File this one under closing image masterclass. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the Breakfast … [Read More...]
What’s the Climax of Good Will Hunting?
People email questions from time-to-time. I've always answered these questions. I've also always … [Read More...]
Jurassic World, Jurassic Values
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofZ7xjGyI8 If there’s one thing to learn from this video, and … [Read More...]
Recent Analysis
L.A. Confidential
Director Curtis Hanson and his co-writer, Brian Helgeland, have taken a massively complex novel by … [Read More...]
Vertigo
At the very beginning of the movie, we see Scottie vaulting across rooftops, struggling to keep up … [Read More...]
The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont has often compared The Shawshank Redemption to a Rorschach test. Written and executed … [Read More...]