Comments on: Where Do Ideas Come From? (A+B=C) http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/where-do-ideas-come-from-abc/ ...or wherever you live outside of L.A. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Scott W. Smith http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/where-do-ideas-come-from-abc/#comment-88 Scott W. Smith Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:20:48 +0000 http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-88 It could have been the Dick Van Dyke show (I've been wrong a time or two in my life), but the chances are better that it was a theme used in both. Before everyone wanted to be a screenwriter it was all about writing the great American novel. I bet that the Skipper and/or Gilligan went away to a cabin in the woods to write. Someone who knows more about TV trivia could probably rattle off a dozen shows where the "trying to write in a cabin" theme has been used. Scott It could have been the Dick Van Dyke show (I’ve been wrong a time or two in my life), but the chances are better that it was a theme used in both. Before everyone wanted to be a screenwriter it was all about writing the great American novel.

I bet that the Skipper and/or Gilligan went away to a cabin in the woods to write. Someone who knows more about TV trivia could probably rattle off a dozen shows where the “trying to write in a cabin” theme has been used.

Scott

]]> By: Terry http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/where-do-ideas-come-from-abc/#comment-87 Terry Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:53:40 +0000 http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-87 Actually Scott it was the Dick Van Dyke Show, where Dick took his typewriter to cabin to write the "great american novel." Very funny scene too. This is another great posting. Excellent stuff that goes beyond just writing. I will take some principles from here and try and put into practice for my life. Actually Scott it was the Dick Van Dyke Show, where Dick took his typewriter to cabin to write the “great american novel.” Very funny scene too.

This is another great posting. Excellent stuff that goes beyond just writing. I will take some principles from here and try and put into practice for my life.

]]> By: Scott W. Smith http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/where-do-ideas-come-from-abc/#comment-86 Scott W. Smith Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:25:28 +0000 http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-86 I just saw "Ninotchka" a few months ago. (Thanks to Netflix every town in America can now get a film education at home.) There are some wonderful moments in that Lubitsch directed movie from a screenplay in part by Billy Wilder. A former HBO producer gave me Cameron Crowe's book "Conversation with Wilder" which is full of film wisdom. You'll notice in the photo at top of this blog of my favorite film scripts "The Apartment" is mixed in there. It's probably the least well known script in that pile (and my favorite Wilder film) and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. Scott I just saw “Ninotchka” a few months ago. (Thanks to Netflix every town in America can now get a film education at home.) There are some wonderful moments in that Lubitsch directed movie from a screenplay in part by Billy Wilder.

A former HBO producer gave me Cameron Crowe’s book “Conversation with Wilder” which is full of film wisdom. You’ll notice in the photo at top of this blog of my favorite film scripts “The Apartment” is mixed in there. It’s probably the least well known script in that pile (and my favorite Wilder film) and I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.

Scott

]]> By: Ms. Tralwind http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/where-do-ideas-come-from-abc/#comment-85 Ms. Tralwind Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:18:48 +0000 http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-85 "I love the scene in Jerry Maguire after Jerry has been fired and he stands before the entire office and asked who is coming with him on his new venture. No one moves. His secretary says she close to another pay raise. Total embarrassment for the Tom Cruise character. He’s humiliated so what does he do? He turns to the fish tank and says “The fish are coming with me.” And the fish become a motif thoughout the film. Chances are if you asked the screenwriter Cameron Crowe how he came up with that scene he wouldn’t know. But he captured the magic. " I suspect he would say he was hailing the great director Ernst Lubitsch and equally great screen writer and mentor Billy Wilder. I think he was hailing the movie Ninotchka. Rock On, Andrea “I love the scene in Jerry Maguire after Jerry has been fired and he stands before the entire office and asked who is coming with him on his new venture. No one moves. His secretary says she close to another pay raise. Total embarrassment for the Tom Cruise character. He’s humiliated so what does he do? He turns to the fish tank and says “The fish are coming with me.”

And the fish become a motif thoughout the film.

Chances are if you asked the screenwriter Cameron Crowe how he came up with that scene he wouldn’t know. But he captured the magic. ”

I suspect he would say he was hailing the great director Ernst Lubitsch and equally great screen writer and mentor Billy Wilder. I think he was hailing the movie Ninotchka.

Rock On,

Andrea

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