by BlueCat | Aug 3, 2012 | Articles
I met Deepak Sethi at Mel’s Diner on Sunset Boulevard. It’s the kind of 50’s throwback restaurant where they force all the wait staff to wear little paper caps and make a big deal out of the fact that when you order a milkshake they give it to you in...
by BlueCat | Sep 29, 2011 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
I watched a movie on Kubrick’s boxes last night. The master would prepare so completely and with such great detail, he left behind thousands of boxes of photographs, notes, memos, fan letters and blank stationary, all collected and stored meticulously in service...
by BlueCat | Sep 29, 2011 | Articles
If you’re like me, if someone doesn’t like something about my screenplay, my very first reaction is always the same.You’re not as smart as me. If you knew what I knew, you would understand what I wrote. And you don’t understand what I wrote,...
by BlueCat | Sep 29, 2011 | Articles
Screenplay contests are changing cinema. Coming from a person who runs one, your first reaction to this statement is most likely, “The only reason you’re saying that is you want me to enter yours.”Or more frankly, “You just want my...
by BlueCat | Sep 29, 2011 | Articles
Right this very second, in the heart of every struggling, undiscovered screenwriter, in the dark, hidden corner deep within, there is a voice, a clear whisper, saying one thing:You’re never gonna figure this out.And this is not referring to the story with its...
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