Once-a-day blogging just isn't for me. Certainly not during a week when a final chapter comes out. But it's done! IBIHD is concluded and the chat is
scheduled. Huzzah! Now I do have a few more goodies to share with the readers who have left such gratifying feedback, but that's better done in the
message board and it's definitely better done after coffee kicks in.
So what else is new? I posted my thoughts on the Dark
Knight trailer elsewhere, but for the blog-only readers, I will repeat here that I am as enthusiastic about this movie as the next rabidly obsessed
Bat-fan, and I think we all know that. I was tickled to see the trailer on the big screen before Indiana Jones. Online virals are nice, but there is no
substitute for the
Many years ago we had a thread based on Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters, luscious little volume which broke down these timeless principles of storytelling with examples from movies that we all know.
Oedipus, Odysseus, three bags full. We kinda-sorta know the gist: slept with mom, trojan horse, bitch of a time getting home. But we don't really know the
story, not to follow Ari dissecting the moving parts. But Michael Corleone, there we know the story fiber by fiber, molecule by molecule. An offer you
can't refuse. You broke my heart, Freddo. Leave the gun; take the cannoli.
The title of that thread was "Never follow rules…" and that is taken from an Aaron Sorkin quote, which is simply the best piece of advice for...