do you consider screenplays to be /lit/?

[Anonymous No.16239444]

I've read over 1,500 screenplays in the last 5-6 years due to my job working in film/tv development.

Some writers are actual writers, like Yorgos Lanthimos or Charlie Kaufman - the writing feels very much so like prose. Some, like Ari Aster are far more technical and write much more like a playwright insofar they don't bother with any prose-like details in the descriptive text between dialogue but rather use that space to perfectly explain the technical aspects of the frame. Most screen writers however, are simply not good and ultra-liberal to the extent it made me quit.

>pic related the best written screenplay I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.16239452]

Not really unless they are novelized screenplays like The Drop.

[Anonymous No.16239455]

>>16239444
Eh, not really, no, sorry

[Anonymous No.16239477]

>>16239444
I don't care for Kaufman overall but Being John Malkovich is such a good script even Spike Jonze couldn't fuck it up with his boring, functional directing. Pulp Fiction is another one of those, Tarantino should have handed it over to Oliver Stone or Tony Scott. Citizen Kane and Ferris Bueller have really great scripts too.

[Anonymous No.16239685]

>>16239455
I'd argue that if plays are /lit/, which they are, then screenplays are too. Maybe you just haven't read one.

[Anonymous No.16239703]

>>16239455
stop posting this thot

[inquiry No.16239758]

>>16239444
Sure dude, whatever you like reading. You don't need this board's approval. Unrelated but do you enjoy your job?

[Anonymous No.16239773]

>>16239444
you quit tho? It was that bad?

[Anonymous No.16239857]

>>16239758
It was nice worked for various major studios, met a lot of famous people, and read many major works that went to screen. I started my own business to make money on the side/write with my free time.

>>16239773
It was stressful and became way too political after 2018, it was sort of down hill from there since everything felt like propaganda. Pay sucks as well, but it was nice to be involved in major culture moving projects and most of my friends do the same so it's fun to know whats up. Now I'm focusing on about 3-4 projects I wrote that major studios are interested in.

[Anonymous No.16239866]

>>16239857
You're a king hopefully you make it in. Are they themes that are /lit/ or pre 2018 stuff?

[Anonymous No.16239883]

>>16239866
Ironically, the one with the most traction is a piece that is basically Bitcoin/Blockchain propaganda. I personally don't think it's my best, but it's a really sexy topic just because it hasn't been done before.

[Anonymous No.16239887]

yeh bruh. harold pinter, tom stoppard, the list goes on...

[Anonymous No.16239889]

>>16239883
I love it bro would love to see it

[Anonymous No.16239894]

>>16239887
that guy on the left is a psychopath. I can spend my whole life avoiding him. All those clothes are new you can tell he's just an actor

[Anonymous No.16240006]

>>16239857
even normies recognize its propaganda now so not sure what is still inflating the hollywood machine

[Anonymous No.16240011]

>>16239444
Screenplays are great if you want to learn how to write natural dialogue.

[Anonymous No.16240565]

>>16240006
Because everyone isn't a subhuman conspiracy theorist like you

[Anonymous No.16240608]

https://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting

[Anonymous No.16240654]

>>16239703
Don't reply to it retard.

[Anonymous No.16240936]

>>16239444
Will Tenet be good? What is your opinion of Christopher nolan

[Anonymous No.16241015]

I like it for it's ability to conjure up a dense atmosphere in such a short time and establish characters quick.
Cuts a lot of the fat away that drags down scenes when it isn't done by someone who knows exactly how to use prose.
A lot of the average YA, fantasy, fiction where the authors just string together sentences like "x said, then y said, then he did" would benefit from a reduction.

[Anonymous No.16241023]

No.

Of all the shit that gets written in a script the only stuff that makes it into the actual film is the dialogue, and even that gets heavily changed by actors and editors.

[Anonymous No.16241040]

>>16240936
not OP but it already came out in my country
one of Nolan’s worst, on par with Interstellar and the third Batman.

[Anonymous No.16241053]

lit screenplays started and ended at jarry

[Anonymous No.16241082]

Why are plays considered literature but not screenplays?

[Anonymous No.16241083]

>>16239857
How did you end up in that line of work? Did you go to uni / college or just apply for a job straight in?

[Anonymous No.16241092]

Is there anywhere I can read the screenplays for released films online? Would like to write one but don't have a sense of the technical side, formatting, etc

[Anonymous No.16241184]

>>16239444
That would be like calling a blueprint a building. No matter how beautifully it is drawn, you are not going to want to live in it, it is still just a blueprint.

[Anonymous No.16241448]

>>16241092
https://www.simplyscripts.com/
https://www.dailyscript.com/

[Anonymous No.16242204]

>>16241092
just remember that the director, DP, and editor are above you on the food chain, you're writing for them

[Anonymous No.16242217]

>>16241015
This. I write dialogue first as if I were writing a comics book in my head and then add the other text

[Anonymous No.16242574]

Is it harder to sell a book or a screenplay?

[Anonymous No.16243626]

>>16239444
screenwriting is so cringe. imagine being some fucking basement dwelling khv and not only getting your dick up over how great a writer you are, but writing directly for a movie. how delusional you would have to be.

and even then? tv and movies are always utter trash. only a blowover from /tv/ would enjoy reading such base schlock. even a godforsaken isekai LN has more literary value than a "screenplay". kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.16243709]

>>16243626
Post your book anon. :^)

[Anonymous No.16243863]

>>16242204
Sure, but the story still needs to be *purchased* anon. And for it to be purchased, it needs to be good. We're also discrediting, that most director write their own screenplays specifically for this purpose.

>>16241184
So are Shakespeare's plays not /lit/ then?

>>16241083
A lot of internships, as long as you have an above average perception of story telling and can give good notes then executives will notice and take you under their wing.

>>16243626
http://scriptfest.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/THE-LOBSTER.pdf

This is a form of literature at peak efficiency, and even better so that it is written explicitly to come to life for viewers.

[Anonymous No.16243886]

>>16243863
>This is a form of literature at peak efficiency
>The Lobster
holy fuck /tv/ tourists need to leave this is just plain embarrassing

[Anonymous No.16244001]

>>16243863
>So are Shakespeare's plays not /lit/ then?
I would not consider them to be, he did not write them to be read but to be performed and a great deal is lost in reading them compared to seeing a performance.

[Anonymous No.16244051]

The Prometheus screenplay is pure /lit/