William C Martell

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Every year I write new (or rewrite) Script Tip articles on my website. There are over 400 - but some are in the garage waiting for repairs. Working on a couple of new ones for November. SNOWBALL! and SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE, maybe a couple of others. Free.

Forgot: Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!

www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
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Thursday's Script Tip: BACKGROUND TO DANGER! You are writing a horror script (or pick your genre), how do you make yours different? Set it in an interesting world! A female Pop Star with a famous boyfriend? SMILE 2!

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“Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch it. Who could have predicted that a free people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a box with pictures?”

Today's film quote.

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Related to this: What is your brand? Your personal logline? What makes you you? What makes you memorable? What is your story? Bring yourself to the meeting.

Also think about something unique in the way you dress. I can spot Steven Sears from across a crowded room.

You mean Bezos.

"I rolled into town in a $250,000 vehicle named after one of the fastest animals on earth."

"A Jaguar XKE?"

"Guess again..."

It's National Cat Day.
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Monday's Script Tip: YOUR PLOT SEED. How to avoid a Scattershot Plot? We look at LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL and how all of the pieces are logically connected and grow from the concept (seed). Focus isn't only for the camera!

www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip221....
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16 years ago my films invaded the UK, and were completely unavoidable if you were watching the Movies For Men channel. Once again, I am sorry for that!

A couple of weeks before this I had a different movie on M4M every day for a week. 7 films, 7 days!

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Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.

You could never make a horror movie about something as boring as Text To Speech ...

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Well, I have written a bunch of books on writing and film reviews, etc. But I don't write documentaries or true crime.

Today, back to work on my Sunday fiction project STEEL TRAP... With a lost outline for this chapter.

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YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers The Fortune Cookie (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Released on this date in 1966 Billy Wilder's blacker than black comedy THE FORTUNE COOKIE starring Lemon & Matthau...

Also Matthau in an action role in CHARLIE VARRICK was released on this date.

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And you deserve the big hairy ones... not those little tiny ones!

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Try to avoid "still lifes" - if characters are just talking, get them walking!

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"You know what dirty money is? That's the kind of money you can't declare on your income tax. Well, when certain people get that kind of money, what they do is send it out of the country to invest, and when it comes back, it's clean."

From a film released on this date.

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YouTube video by TheEarlycinema Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory 1895

On this date in 1862 Auguste Lumière, the French filmmaker who made the very first movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) was born in Besançon, France.

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I hear they're remaking it... I'm VisaVision.
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Always great when the flagship book climbs back into Amazon's Top 100 Screenwriting Books (Kindle)! It's like an old man finishing in the top 100 in a marathon. The first printing of the paperback was 1998!

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] Producer John Carpenter (Halloween, the Thing) presents the third chilling installment in the shocking Halloween collection. When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the h...

On This Day In Film History - October 18, 1982 - Harry Grimbridge attends a merchant's council meeting in HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH.

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Time to put on our masks...
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Tuesday's Script Tip: PITCHING YOUR TAKE! Your great horror screenplay gets you the chance to write the sequel CUTTING CLASS 2! Brad Pitt is back! What's your sequel story? Pitch your take!

www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip167....
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Note cards in my pocket.

Once, working my day job in a warehouse, I wrote a scene on the top of a box of canned peas, sliced it off and took it home. The grocery store probably wondered what happened.

"I guess a scar isn't so bad, not if it's only on one side... I can always go through life sideways."

From a movie released on this date. And "going through life sideways" is a great description of the character, too!

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Original writers are dead, so no check required.

Followed Home (Crime Time Thrillers) Amazon.com: Followed Home (Crime Time Thrillers) eBook : Martell, William C.: Kindle Store

FOLLOWED HOME: A CRIME TIME THRILLER. Bowden knew the best place to find a victim is somewhere they feel safe. Diane Taylor would be his next victim... Could she survive? Short story.

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There were going to be 2 follow up articles showing how variations of this are used in different genres... But both are still rough drafts on my laptop.

Go to local film festivals. Meet local film makers. Become part of that community.

Monday's Script Tip: THE MIND OF THE VILLAIN. Villains believe that they are the hero of their own stories... so how do you get into that midset? Motivating the villain. BLACK PANTHER, great horror film FRAILTY, more.

www.scriptsecrets.net/tips/tip261....
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YouTube video by Laura Ann ~Magical Halloween Striptease~

Take it all off!

youtu.be/hxqaeBrBrl4?...

The best part of the (terrible) movie!

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I don't know. Were those credits buried in the closing credits?