I know how basically every page is to be 1 minute of screen time, but how do you figure in action scenes with no dialoge? I mean if you have people running thru corridors till they come to a spot to rest. Or a better example would be the big underwater fight scene in Thunderball. Is it up to the director or fight corridoranitor to decide on the lengeth? Because you can have a script that runs say 90 odd minutes, but once you put in all the action wouldn't that stretch it out to a feature?
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- Thread starter wolftoy
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Action scenes are also on the page - the average script is about a 50/50 split between actions and dialogue.
You need to read a stack of scripts - actions scripts - to see what a script looks like. Walter Hill or Shane Black or some other writer who does action. The car chase in BULLITT is 7.5 pages long - no dialogue. That's an extreme, but it gives you an idea.
If it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen.
- Bill
You need to read a stack of scripts - actions scripts - to see what a script looks like. Walter Hill or Shane Black or some other writer who does action. The car chase in BULLITT is 7.5 pages long - no dialogue. That's an extreme, but it gives you an idea.
If it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen.
- Bill