This series of articles takes a film based on real-life events and analyses the opening section, following the […]
Category Archive: Analysis
The historical film is a tricky beast to tame. However, the filmmakers approach the story, there’ll always be […]
The final article in the series on the screenwriter’s role explores a few issues around the idea of […]
Studying successful screenplays and films is a key part of learning how to write them yourself! In this […]
The Killing Fields is an Oscar-winning fictionalisation of the experiences of two journalists working in war-torn 1970s Cambodia… Director: Roland Joffé […]
The second article in our short series on the screenwriter’s role, looks at how employing journalistic skills can […]
The first article in our short series on screenwriter’s roles, looks at how the function of the ‘history film’ […]
Reds tells of John Reed, an American journalist and radical who chronicled the 1917 Russian Revolution. Director: Warren Beatty […]
We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson. So, why should makers of the fact-based film […]