A friend of mine's 16 year old daughter was waiting for her date when she caught her dad watching this movie. Fifteen minutes into it, the door bell rang. She ran to the front door, dragged her boyfriend into the TV room and told him "Sit down & be quiet. We're not leaving 'til this is over". As I had recommended this film to my friend, he admitted that he had Never seen his daughter so focused. EVER!
Thanks for your wonderful analysis of All About Eve. Not to minimize Mankiewicz's writing prowess, but the producer Darryl F. Zanuck deserves some credit for the quality of the final screenplay since he significantly edited Mankiewicz's writing. He provided numerous suggestions for improving the screenplay. In some sections, he felt that Mankiewicz's writing lacked subtlety or provided excessive detail. He suggested diluting Birdie Coonan's mistrust of Eve so the audience would not recognize Eve as a villainess until much later in the story. Zanuck reduced the screenplay by about 50 pages and chose the title All About Eve from the opening scene in which Addison DeWitt says that he will soon tell "more of Eve ... All about Eve, in fact." In addition, he tightened up the film by eliminating what he considered to be repetitive, superfluous, or mundane material when he edited the film. Also, the casting of Bette Davis as Margo Channing had a big impact on the final screenplay. Initially, the role went to Claudette Colbert, but she withdrew after an injury shortly before filming began. Mankiewicz briefly considered Ingrid Bergman before offering the role to Bette Davis. Margo had been originally conceived as genteel and knowingly humorous, but with the casting of Davis, Mankiewicz revised the character to introduce abrasive qualities.
Dude, you skipped over some extra brilliance in the screenplay: that last shot of the new girl standing between 2 mirrors, with her reflection projected into infinity: it's saying, subtextually, that the Eves are endless, like masses of newborn spiders. They'll keep coming and coming to feed on the spiders who preceded them.
As a native English speaker I wasn't taught well at school, no grammar. So Synecdoche, epiplexis, catachresis are all Greek to me 😉 Love the analysis & have just bought the DVD as some how I have missed watching this classic film. Gradually catching up with your old videos & really enjoying then & learning new appreciation of movie making. Oh, and "Spider Man No way home" didn't like it but then I never got to read the comics so my understanding of the characters & back-stories is limited.
I can't help but be impressed by the depth of your analysis of the movies. Did I find "Spider Man No way home" weak? Yeah! Did I find Dr Octopus different? Yeah! But could I explain why? Of course not! Brilliant once again! What an excellent choice of movie to exemplify 👏🏼👏🏼
The best "swearing" in a screenplay is where you can't hear any. The words have already exploded, before they were even expressed❤️But I'm old and I grew out of it...eventually..when I learned to speak English.
I _highly_ recommend Mark Forsyth's book _The Elements of Eloquence - How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase._ Even if you don't care for such books, you'll enjoy this one anyway. It's immensely entertaining in addition to being informative.
What a phenomenal discovery this is! There are so many thoughtful, well produced film channels available - we’re in a variable golden age - but this one vaults to the top. I have to pace myself so as to not consume them all in one overwhelming swallow. Great work!
I am doing data entry on a spreadsheet and often listen to videos in the background, but yours' is one of the few channels I have to stop and watch. I appreciate the complexity and entertaining nature of these videos! Thank You!
Phenomenal video especially for a young aspiring film maker like me I really hope your channel blows up some day as I find most of your videos really educative thank you
Yes. Character is everything. One of my standards lines is "I will watch a movie about two rocks if A) I care about the rocks and B) I care about the relationship between the rocks. And these two only work if I am not manipulated into either one.
@@Moviewise What's the title of the video? I'll watch that now! I love the movie because it's a movie of 2 halves with 3 acts in each half. Plus it's the text book definition of dramatic irony.
Great video. A deep and rich analysis; fun use of cultural references; but mostly for me, a great grammar/English lesson. Great combo of pedagogy and entertainment. Keep it up!
What an academical analysis you make, dude. Every time I watch one of your videos I come out with a few extra opened pages in Google just to read about them, or a new movie recomendation.
11:27s the writers of The Boys intentionally made Homelander say something contradictory, because his world is of people around him that are too fearful to correct him. So, he lives in a bubble where he is always being told yes and he is right. That's a character flaw, not a writing one. So, Ashley is perplexed in how to respond, as it would possibly shorten her life to correct the short-tempered superman on his insult. ***Good video by the way, a very thorough breakdown on writing for film.
Your videos give me hope! I’m seeing that not every screenwriter knows what they’re doing. It seems many rather successful, big league writers aren’t really very good. The same goes for directors. So my chances just shot up from 0 to 1 in a million! Woo hoo.
Thank you for not doing a video covering 5 aspects of screenwriting. Three is my limit. By the time the video is over, I’ll have forgotten the first two points. A singular point is best of all-assuming your presentation is engaging and entertaining, I am sure to remember it. This video was engaging and entertaining. It was very good that you focused on a single movie/screenplay as the good writing example and a handful of familiar bad ones as the bad examples. I suspect it doesn’t matter how many different films you use because you’re not doing a snarky tear down of bad writing, you’re using their unsatisfactory writing to underline the excellence of the good writing in What About Eve.
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That introducing character names edit 🤣 Now that's comedy
You can listen to All About Eve as if it were a play, turn off the vision, and you will still understand it. That is what makes it so great. It is also probably why a younger audience would never appreciate it. I wonder what a modern director would do with the same script today. I think Kenneth Branagh's somewhat pointless film remakes of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile demonstrate this. Great source material ruined by unnecessary action scenes and pointless and excessive editing.
I really really love your essays! The aspects you point out, the tone and the style of your edits!! Great work!! But your audio levels are all over the place - is this intentional?
Welcoming readers of the following five screenplays - to rate them from best to worst (1 to 5) - The Apartment, Chinatown, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Some Like it Hot, and All About Eve?
I looked up synecdoche on Wikipedia and inexplicably, the entry is accompanied by a photo of German combat boots. Is this a way of Mankiewicz trolling us from the Great Beyond?
@@desuretard8654 Since we've grown up with colored television we look for it to keep us invested. Black and white films call back to a much older time and the quality of films seem lower. (Of course, it's only the timeless black and white classics that are suggested so the idea that they're lower quality is really just a bias).
I watched the film half way through the video and really enjoyed it. I gotta say I instantly understood why Monroe became such a star. I mean she can't act very well (imo based on this small role) but she absolutely glows on screen. It was really remarkable.
Marilyn had an incredible relationship with the camera. The others use words brilliantly, but Marilyn used hardly any and you still remember her. All About Eve is a sublime film with a sublime script!
About Camões the orinal says "em perigos e glórias guerras esforçados, Mais do que prometia a força humana" . Yeah it is a faithful translation. The example is valid.
I don't think "the power of the sun" or "palm of my hand" is a synecdoche. The phrase "fire in my hands" when referring to the sun, or just "power," might arguably be synecdoche because they are replacing "sun" with "fire" or "power," but I think if you stretch the meaning so thin as to suggest a _descriptor_ is one, then the word loses meaning. If I said, "The edge of my blade," I'm literally referring to the edge, and using the word _edge_ to refer to edge. If I called a sword "my steel," now I'm replacing the specific thing, _sword,_ with the thing it's made of, _steel._ Am I being pedantic, or am I being inaccurate?
I would say The Godfather . A lot of people would probably say Citizen Kane . I never saw the movie, though. But it’s usually listed and ranked as the best movie .
I'm extremely bad at catching subtext and hidden meaning in what people say, both in fiction and in real life, so this movie's brilliance would probably fly over my head at Mach 10 without me even noticing.
I think some of the best movies worked by entertaining the audience. Not telling the audience what it already knew, take the Matchmaker scene from Mrs. Doubtfire as an example. It's dumb and serves no purpose, but it was an entertaining segway. The Doc Oc scene is the exact opposite.
Yes, AAE was outstanding for its script (and everything else). Cutting abruptly to the crap following was shocking. At the risk of blowback, I have always thought that James Edward Grant's script for The Alamo (1960) is excellent; poetic and indirect *, funny and moving. It's been singled out by critics who hated the film (for obvious reasons). * After Travis states that Bowie's vested interest as a wealthy man undermines his reasons, Dickinson insinuates that Travis is also is of such means, to which Travis responds - "I have a second suit of clothes; you know that".
Except "good for everybody" I think they didn't hide the hatred they have for each other but instead it just turned into a heated argument while Edison was trying to kinda hide the fact that...hide the fact with aligning with Eve..... wait WAITYTTT ......FUCKKKKKKK 😭😭😭....NOW I got it thanks Moviewise 👀✨🤌🏻
Those American films of the late 40s and 50s: totally amazing! And the acting! I love 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Double Indemnity'. But of course, 'All About Eve' is probably unsurpassable.
Best Screenplays: Amadeus, Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, 12 Angry Men, Godfather 1 & 2, Clockwork Orange, Network, All About Eve, Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, My Dinner with Andre, Bridge on River Quai.
I loved this - currently reading playlets for a competition and most of the entries should have watched this video. Another way of thinking about subtext that I was once told is that being angry and just ranting is boring (unless you have the poetic genius of Shakespeare) but being angry and struggling not to show it is powerful (or funny) and interesting - goes for almost any emotion or motive.
Best screenplay ever written, that’s just too difficult. Having said that.. I’d push Dangerous Liaisons (Christopher Hampton) into the ring. Any thoughts on that?
I loved the last bit where each eloquent line is proceeded by it’s translation to subtextless equivalent phrases like “fuck you”, it’s a better version of that Key and Peele sketch “Obama’s anger translator” lol
On the one hand, I understand the value of subtext, but on the other hand, “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.” Love the channel, some of the best film analysis available rigjt now.
That was fabulous. It's been a few years since I last watched All About Eve and I've been meaning to for awhile now. Thanks for the nudge and inspiration.
And a character is only as good as his actions. If they dont match the words then u have a problem. As in life. U struggle with people because often their words dont match their actions and u feel uneasy. Like things are not in balance
A friend of mine's 16 year old daughter was waiting for her date when she caught her dad watching this movie. Fifteen minutes into it, the door bell rang. She ran to the front door, dragged her boyfriend into the TV room and told him "Sit down & be quiet. We're not leaving 'til this is over". As I had recommended this film to my friend, he admitted that he had Never seen his daughter so focused.
EVER!
holy hell, that's a banger of a date.
All About Eve has to be one of the tightest screenplays ever written. The dialogue, characters, and structure are essentially perfect.
The short story published in Cosmopolitan 1946 that is the basis of All About Eve
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Did Sanders deserve the Oscar for this?
Thanks for your wonderful analysis of All About Eve.
Not to minimize Mankiewicz's writing prowess, but the producer Darryl F. Zanuck deserves some credit for the quality of the final screenplay since he significantly edited Mankiewicz's writing. He provided numerous suggestions for improving the screenplay. In some sections, he felt that Mankiewicz's writing lacked subtlety or provided excessive detail. He suggested diluting Birdie Coonan's mistrust of Eve so the audience would not recognize Eve as a villainess until much later in the story. Zanuck reduced the screenplay by about 50 pages and chose the title All About Eve from the opening scene in which Addison DeWitt says that he will soon tell "more of Eve ... All about Eve, in fact." In addition, he tightened up the film by eliminating what he considered to be repetitive, superfluous, or mundane material when he edited the film.
Also, the casting of Bette Davis as Margo Channing had a big impact on the final screenplay. Initially, the role went to Claudette Colbert, but she withdrew after an injury shortly before filming began. Mankiewicz briefly considered Ingrid Bergman before offering the role to Bette Davis. Margo had been originally conceived as genteel and knowingly humorous, but with the casting of Davis, Mankiewicz revised the character to introduce abrasive qualities.
Dude, you skipped over some extra brilliance in the screenplay: that last shot of the new girl standing between 2 mirrors, with her reflection projected into infinity: it's saying, subtextually, that the Eves are endless, like masses of newborn spiders. They'll keep coming and coming to feed on the spiders who preceded them.
And as far as Eve’s ongoing relationship with Addison, George Sanders was a master with the gals in real life.
Foof... your content is on another level. Nobody needs to spend money on film school anymore. I'm going to binge watch your content.
As a native English speaker I wasn't taught well at school, no grammar. So Synecdoche, epiplexis, catachresis are all Greek to me 😉
Love the analysis & have just bought the DVD as some how I have missed watching this classic film.
Gradually catching up with your old videos & really enjoying then & learning new appreciation of movie making.
Oh, and "Spider Man No way home" didn't like it but then I never got to read the comics so my understanding of the characters & back-stories is limited.
I can't help but be impressed by the depth of your analysis of the movies.
Did I find "Spider Man No way home" weak? Yeah! Did I find Dr Octopus different? Yeah! But could I explain why? Of course not!
Brilliant once again! What an excellent choice of movie to exemplify 👏🏼👏🏼
The best "swearing" in a screenplay is where you can't hear any. The words have already exploded, before they were even expressed❤️But I'm old and I grew out of it...eventually..when I learned to speak English.
I don’t know…. Tom cruise in tropic thunder had some great swears you have to hear it to appreciate it 😂😂😂
Synecdoche, epiplexis, catachresis - I’m learning a ton! Thanks so much for this video.
I _highly_ recommend Mark Forsyth's book _The Elements of Eloquence - How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase._
Even if you don't care for such books, you'll enjoy this one anyway. It's immensely entertaining in addition to being informative.
For what it's worth, that's not a synecdoche.
@@HighKingTurgon I'd have called it 'parallel construction'.
@@HighKingTurgonBrain?
What a phenomenal discovery this is! There are so many thoughtful, well produced film channels available - we’re in a variable golden age - but this one vaults to the top. I have to pace myself so as to not consume them all in one overwhelming swallow.
Great work!
I like the swap of veritable for variable. We are in a variable age.
I am doing data entry on a spreadsheet and often listen to videos in the background, but yours' is one of the few channels I have to stop and watch. I appreciate the complexity and entertaining nature of these videos!
Thank You!
Subtext portion is gold. Hope to hear more of that!
Subtext: skip the grammar lesson, gramps.
Phenomenal video especially for a young aspiring film maker like me I really hope your channel blows up some day as I find most of your videos really educative thank you
That’s one of my intentions! Thank you for the comment
Please make video on Roy Andersson
Thank you so much. I remember watching this movie many years ago and enjoying it. After viewing your video, I’m propelled to see movie again.
Magnificently funny and unexpectedly educational - a mighty combination
Yes. Character is everything. One of my standards lines is "I will watch a movie about two rocks if A) I care about the rocks and B) I care about the relationship between the rocks. And these two only work if I am not manipulated into either one.
Best screenplay ever written in my opinion is 'The Bridge Over The River Kwai'
Terrific choice! I even made a video about that spectacular screenplay
@@Moviewise What's the title of the video? I'll watch that now!
I love the movie because it's a movie of 2 halves with 3 acts in each half. Plus it's the text book definition of dramatic irony.
The video is called “How Movies Should Deliver Messages” and I have the feeling you’ll like it
Great video. A deep and rich analysis; fun use of cultural references; but mostly for me, a great grammar/English lesson.
Great combo of pedagogy and entertainment. Keep it up!
What an academical analysis you make, dude. Every time I watch one of your videos I come out with a few extra opened pages in Google just to read about them, or a new movie recomendation.
The editing for these videos are a different level to anything else I've seen on UA-cam.
Keep making these; they will eventually explode.
This was really enjoyable!
Subtext: I wish I'd thought of it😊
11:27s the writers of The Boys intentionally made Homelander say something contradictory, because his world is of people around him that are too fearful to correct him.
So, he lives in a bubble where he is always being told yes and he is right. That's a character flaw, not a writing one.
So, Ashley is perplexed in how to respond, as it would possibly shorten her life to correct the short-tempered superman on his insult.
***Good video by the way, a very thorough breakdown on writing for film.
All about eve is probably my favorite movie
A most exquisite choice!
@@Moviewise I love movies from the 50s, it was the golden periode of Hollywood.
Awesome, just awesome!
Your videos and analysis are fantastic! Keep up the great work!
IMHO, the best screenplays ever written are: 1. Twelve Angry Men; 2. Primer; 3. The Man From Earth.
I love the final "subtext analysis"!
Me
“Those words sound made up”
Movie wise
“All so does your name”
My favorite part is how Eve, from the audience's POV, doesn't truly resemble Margo in mannerisms until the new girl shows up.
Give me Moviewise's duelling subtext over Epic Voice Guy doing snarky trailers any day. [16:28]
Your videos give me hope!
I’m seeing that not every screenwriter knows what they’re doing. It seems many rather successful, big league writers aren’t really very good.
The same goes for directors.
So my chances just shot up from 0 to 1 in a million! Woo hoo.
I love this film and its script and suggest Network as another superb example of screenwriting cheers love your work
Thank you for not doing a video covering 5 aspects of screenwriting. Three is my limit. By the time the video is over, I’ll have forgotten the first two points. A singular point is best of all-assuming your presentation is engaging and entertaining, I am sure to remember it. This video was engaging and entertaining.
It was very good that you focused on a single movie/screenplay as the good writing example and a handful of familiar bad ones as the bad examples. I suspect it doesn’t matter how many different films you use because you’re not doing a snarky tear down of bad writing, you’re using their unsatisfactory writing to underline the excellence of the good writing in What About Eve.
That introducing character names edit 🤣 Now that's comedy
I'm a simple man. I hear Camōes' name, I subscribe!
When you're on fire missing your limbs it's hard to be poetic
Touché
You can listen to All About Eve as if it were a play, turn off the vision, and you will still understand it. That is what makes it so great. It is also probably why a younger audience would never appreciate it. I wonder what a modern director would do with the same script today. I think Kenneth Branagh's somewhat pointless film remakes of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile demonstrate this. Great source material ruined by unnecessary action scenes and pointless and excessive editing.
I really really love your essays!
The aspects you point out, the tone and the style of your edits!!
Great work!!
But your audio levels are all over the place - is this intentional?
Great video! Haven’t seen this but will put it on my watchlist 😀 My favourite screenplay is probably Miller’s Crossing 🙌
Welcoming readers of the following five screenplays - to rate them from best to worst (1 to 5) - The Apartment, Chinatown, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Some Like it Hot, and All About Eve?
Network has one of the best scripts ever
Sleuth -- directed by you know who. My Dinner with Andre, The Third Man, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown...
Be honest. You've read Mark Forsyth's _The Elements of Eloquence - How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase,_ right?
I’m a J-graduate from USC and nobody took the time to give me such fascinating language lessons. I was going to learn Spanish. 🥺\/ErY gOOd
Perfect analysis of a great screenplay. I would love to hear you analyze "The Third Man."
I looked up synecdoche on Wikipedia and inexplicably, the entry is accompanied by a photo of German combat boots.
Is this a way of Mankiewicz trolling us from the Great Beyond?
Jokes on you, I ain't beholding squat.
For those who are nervous about watching old black and white movies there was a 90s remake of AAE called Showgirls. Beautiful film.
I really like the B&W films because they come from a time before SFX and stunning colors. So the writing had to be good.
Hahahaha Showgirls was a DISASTER!
Why would someone be nervous about watching b&w movies?
@@desuretard8654 Since we've grown up with colored television we look for it to keep us invested. Black and white films call back to a much older time and the quality of films seem lower. (Of course, it's only the timeless black and white classics that are suggested so the idea that they're lower quality is really just a bias).
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this bit made me laugh on a movie a like.
The ending is hysterical 😅
I watched the film half way through the video and really enjoyed it.
I gotta say I instantly understood why Monroe became such a star. I mean she can't act very well (imo based on this small role) but she absolutely glows on screen. It was really remarkable.
Marilyn had an incredible relationship with the camera. The others use words brilliantly, but Marilyn used hardly any and you still remember her. All About Eve is a sublime film with a sublime script!
Here to put in a vote for "Broadcast News" as a really good screenplay.
You're a genius...
About Camões the orinal says "em perigos e glórias guerras esforçados, Mais do que prometia a força humana" . Yeah it is a faithful translation. The example is valid.
My pick for the best screenplay is REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
I'm savoring your videos like precious treats. 🎩📴
Nice work.
wonderful
Amazing analysis! What do you think of Pedro Almodovar? I see a lot of these good elements in his screenplays. Cheers!
Greatest screenplay of all time has to be Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Brilliant expose'.
I don't think "the power of the sun" or "palm of my hand" is a synecdoche. The phrase "fire in my hands" when referring to the sun, or just "power," might arguably be synecdoche because they are replacing "sun" with "fire" or "power," but I think if you stretch the meaning so thin as to suggest a _descriptor_ is one, then the word loses meaning.
If I said, "The edge of my blade," I'm literally referring to the edge, and using the word _edge_ to refer to edge. If I called a sword "my steel," now I'm replacing the specific thing, _sword,_ with the thing it's made of, _steel._
Am I being pedantic, or am I being inaccurate?
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I would say The Godfather . A lot of people would probably say Citizen Kane . I never saw the movie, though. But it’s usually listed and ranked as the best movie .
I'm extremely bad at catching subtext and hidden meaning in what people say, both in fiction and in real life, so this movie's brilliance would probably fly over my head at Mach 10 without me even noticing.
Perhaps watch more of these films, and you will gradually begin to find it easier to catch subtext and hidden meanings?
I think some of the best movies worked by entertaining the audience.
Not telling the audience what it already knew, take the Matchmaker scene from Mrs. Doubtfire as an example.
It's dumb and serves no purpose, but it was an entertaining segway.
The Doc Oc scene is the exact opposite.
Where did you learn all these poetic devices?
Yes, AAE was outstanding for its script (and everything else). Cutting abruptly to the crap following was shocking.
At the risk of blowback, I have always thought that James Edward Grant's script for The Alamo (1960) is excellent; poetic and indirect *, funny and moving. It's been singled out by critics who hated the film (for obvious reasons). * After Travis states that Bowie's vested interest as a wealthy man undermines his reasons, Dickinson insinuates that Travis is also is of such means, to which Travis responds - "I have a second suit of clothes; you know that".
In all fairness, you have to be extremely intelligent to understand the subtle humor of Spidermon 10.6. Not everyone will get it.
LOL
Fuckin 👏 👏 brilliant
Best Screenplay : Casablanca . ? It's in top 3 at least..!
Best screenplay written in my humble regard would be, something about Virginia Woolf
So funny
Written the same year and about ageing actresses? Sunset Boulevard,
Plot and character are just 2 different aspects of story. Thay both need to be good to work.
Any other blinding insights...?
I am unimpressed by your performance.
MMA joke.
GSP.
i hate suntext its so bourgeois for my taste
Joe Biden needs better script writers
i dislike movies older than the 70s because the music is all over the place, and the actors cant act
Except "good for everybody" I think they didn't hide the hatred they have for each other but instead it just turned into a heated argument while Edison was trying to kinda hide the fact that...hide the fact with aligning with Eve..... wait WAITYTTT ......FUCKKKKKKK 😭😭😭....NOW I got it thanks Moviewise 👀✨🤌🏻
You can never go wrong with Billy Wilder in his prime.
Those American films of the late 40s and 50s: totally amazing! And the acting!
I love 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Double Indemnity'. But of course, 'All About Eve' is probably unsurpassable.
About as perfect as movies get - funny, smart, profane and wicked. Endlessly quotable dialogue
I’m interested in all of the scenes with George Sanders . He’s so snarky that it’s just fun (Even his suicide note is a classic.).
suicide note?
Best Screenplays: Amadeus, Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, 12 Angry Men, Godfather 1 & 2, Clockwork Orange, Network, All About Eve, Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, My Dinner with Andre, Bridge on River Quai.
Is it just me or is the blocking in All About Eve exemplary?
I really did like it, I've already subscribed and I have now shared it with everyone I can think of. That was a masterful review. Thank you.
I loved this - currently reading playlets for a competition and most of the entries should have watched this video.
Another way of thinking about subtext that I was once told is that being angry and just ranting is boring (unless you have the poetic genius of Shakespeare) but being angry and struggling not to show it is powerful (or funny) and interesting - goes for almost any emotion or motive.
All About Eve is one of my favourite films. I try and watch it every year
Best screenplay ever written, that’s just too difficult. Having said that.. I’d push Dangerous Liaisons (Christopher Hampton) into the ring. Any thoughts on that?
Fan...Tastic! An intelligent and insightful analysis, with humor and no regurgitated, stale old Screenplay "wisdoms".
I loved the last bit where each eloquent line is proceeded by it’s translation to subtextless equivalent phrases like “fuck you”, it’s a better version of that Key and Peele sketch “Obama’s anger translator” lol
Billy Wilders 'Some Like it Hot'
Damn - that movie just sizzles!!
From mY pOinT of vIeW, this video was an excellent close analysis.
On the one hand, I understand the value of subtext, but on the other hand, “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.”
Love the channel, some of the best film analysis available rigjt now.
That was fabulous. It's been a few years since I last watched All About Eve and I've been meaning to for awhile now. Thanks for the nudge and inspiration.
Loving the rhetoric lessons. Can't wait to see more!
And a character is only as good as his actions. If they dont match the words then u have a problem. As in life. U struggle with people because often their words dont match their actions and u feel uneasy. Like things are not in balance