If you immerse yourself in the world of film, it’s like a Gestalt experience where you begin to grasp intuitively scene composition, story structure, character functions, dialogue and subtext, transitions and pacing, and so on. Moreover people who work in the movie business constantly reference existing movies when discussing stories you write it’s a shorthand way of getting across what they mean or envision.īut most importantly, you need to watch movies in order to ‘get’ how movie stories work. Every movie you see is a potential reference point for your writing, everything from story concepts you generate to characters you develop to scenes you construct. To be a good screenwriter, you need to have a broad exposure to the world of film.

Here are my reflections from that post about the importance of watching movies: Why? To quote the writing mantra I coined over 5 years ago: Watch movies. This week we launch a new bi-weekly series in which we will be analyzing movies currently in release.

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