What Most Writers Don't Know About Subtext - John Gray
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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In this Film Courage video interview, Filmmaker John Gray explains how subtext is the unspoken but essential element in writing and acting. It involves what's truly happening in a scene, the genuine emotions and thoughts that are concealed behind the words and actions. As a director, the goal is to guide the subtext by identifying and understanding it, allowing the actors to portray the deeper layers of meaning.
Brooklyn born John Gray is an award winning writer-director-producer of films and television, and the creator of the long running TV series, Ghost Whisperer. He has written and directed many feature films and movies for television, including White Irish Drinkers, starring Stephen Lang and Karen Allen; Martin And Lewis, starring Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam; the Emmy® nominated A Place For Annie, with Sissy Spacek; the Emmy® nominated mini-series Haven with Natasha Richardson and Anne Bancroft; Helter Skelter, and many others. Gray has directed numerous episodes of broadcast and cable series, including multiple episodes of the NBC series GRIMM and was also the producing director of the CBS series RECKLESS. Gray’s acclaimed short films have played and are currently playing in film festivals all over the world including FRENCH KISS, which has also notched 6.3 million views to date on UA-cam. He is married to writer-filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier, and they make their home in New York and Cape Cod, MA. John's new novel The Desecrated follows Jennifer, a college dropout hoping to regroup, who joins the night shift at the NYC Morgue.
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What movie or TV show exhibits excellent use of subtext?
Arcane from Riot Games, and Breaking Bad
Severance is really good at juggling subtext and on-the-nose dialogue.
Anything Alfred Hitchcock. Star Trek TOS. Most sitcoms.
All should
Westworld's first season, every scene with Anthony Hopkins.
Saying something without saying something
Love this dude’s insight on the show
"if the scene is about what the scene is about, then you're in DEEP SHIT." - McKee
Absolute gold!!! John Gray makes the idea of subtext (and other really important aspects of acting, writing) so easy to understand and do! Thank you, Karen and Film Courage! :)
directing the core of art to the real importance of its medium! great
Is subtext is a must for all genres and kinds of movies? Or is it a director's take or choice?
This
The words the characters are saying in not what's going on in the scene is a huge misconception. When used properly, dialogue is action. It is a battle for each characters want, it's a character's Jungian Ego in action - who the character currently is or wants to be seen as. Subtext is exactly what he's saying it is, but dialogue is much more than he's saying it is.
dont judge a book by its cover but on its first page.
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards