What do you do when real life doesn’t deliver a ‘wow’ ending? Dramatically flat or unsatisfying endings can […]
Category Archive: Analysis
Whether you’re adapting a historical event, writing a biopic, or weaving fiction into a real-world setting, it all […]
There’s more than one way to bring real life to the screen. One approach is to place a […]
Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown shows how to turn a sprawling, disputed history and into a tight, […]
When it comes to a fact-based film, placing the narrative into its historical context is as important as […]
While its main narrative is fictional, Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 feature blends fiction with fact to entertaining and somewhat […]
One of the challenges of writing the historical film is that the story is… well historical. This raises […]
The screenplay for the James Mangold-directed racing film Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66) is a great […]
Who says exposition is boring and hard to weave into a script? In The Trial of the Chicago […]