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You assume I have no background in physics. In fact I have advanced science degrees and a medical (MD) degree and have even taught college level physics. I am sorry you can not see the analogy.

So I have an idea for a movie, here it is in less than one page: a handsome young lad, a poor artist, wins a ticket in a poker game to go to America on the Titanic. On the ship's journey he falls in love with a beautiful woman (whom he rescues from a suicidal attempt to jump overboard because...

I have been brainstorming a half dozen story ideas for a screenplay, have each one fleshed out to about a page 'treatment' each. Is that enough specifics for copyright? :huh: I should think so. I know the stories will morph with time, but I want to protect the ideas before I share them with...

George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger are going to be in my town of Duluth MN monday, giving a PR speech outside our little Duluth Depot art museum / historical train station / theatre. It will be kind of cool to see some big stars here. A PR thing, they are promoting their new film coming out...

Amazing. Here is a link to pics of that camcorder. http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=Sony+DCR+PC-100&btnG=Search+Images It really impresses upon me the importance of attaching a name to a feature if possible. Related to this: could one extrapolate this logic (I am being serious...

I tried watching "Ellie Parker" yesterday, a feature DVD starring Naomi Watts (Ring, Ring 2, King Kong, etc)--sorry but I just could not continue watching the DVD; thus my critique here is done without a full viewing of the DVD. Read other reviews e.g. on BlockBuster for more critiques...

I am a noob, but one book that perhaps others with more experience can comment on that I have read and reread and reread that seems to perhaps be good for a producer is "From Reel to Deal"...

My goal for any such story would not be to make fun of fat people, although such scenes would likely occur such a screenplay. But the end goal would include showing that even fat people are people, and as Knightly said bring out themes of self-acceptance, etc. No disrespect intended to fat...

Just free wheeling brainstorming, but I always think cause and effect. If the widower burns a bonfire with everything, that could cause a stir with the local firetowers or fire marshall depending on burning permits and all-- suppose the Ranger who comes to investigate ends up consoling the man...

How long of a short do you envision? Is this going to be a two minute, five minute, twenty? other length? I have an idea for a happy ending but more info would help.

Thank you. And yeah is a great accomplishment, to create a fictional world with real people, real fictional people-- they start coming alive, a strange godlike feeling. But also it is sobering to realize the work yet ahead on rewrites. And yeah, congrats to you on your second feature screenplay...

We could call it "Chocolate Sky"? ;)

Thank you. And yes the shine will wear thin fast--I told my mentor I expect to get quite a few lashings with the cat 'o nine tails, flog away. I really wanted to do some rewriting before sending it to her, but she wanted it, a horrible punishment for her-- I can not imagine what it must be like...

I just emailed off my complete first draft of a feature film screenplay (my first feature length screenplay) to my mentor/consultant. Well, I just had to shout it out somewhere :D if even just virtually here on a forum, a major personal achievement for me. Whether it gets turned into an indie...

Hey Knightly-- being that you are a fellow Minnesotan you probably already know this, but Johnny Depp is making a movie with some of to be filmed just across the border in Wisconsin in a small town there, I forget the name, was just on the local news here in Duluth MN last night. Aside from...

I watched "No Country for Old Men" last night. Powerful film. For such an action-oriented and violent film it struck me though how simple the plot was, no real high concept involved-- the plot was basically a search/recovery (of money) plot, also a survival (from killer) plot. No 'high...

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Well I don't know about that. Anybody can register a script on wga. But then I wonder how many of those 40,000 are partial drafts, treatments, ideas, and of course just bad scripts, and also shorts. And therein is the beauty of screenplays-- completely under the control of the writer...

Anybody have any idea what percent of wga registrations are shorts compared to features? I would think shorts exceed features. I ask because I saw a figure from googling that 40,000 scripts are registered with wga each year, meaning there is a glutton of registered scripts. And thus a bit...

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