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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Jane Campion makes an anti-cowboy masterpiece with ‘The Power of the Dog’
American cowboy movies come with much swagger, often violence, and usually plenty of guns. Jane Campion’s newest, The Power of the Dog, however, is a taught thriller with often disturbing imagery, but almost none of the above. Instead, it centers aro...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘House of Gucci’ soap opera based on true story
Patrizia has grand ambitions. From the first moments she appears on screen, the audience knows that she’s itching to escape the confines of her current situation. It’s just by happenstance that she soon meets a young man at a party named Maurizio, wh...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How the final season of 'Pen15' encapsulates the existential crisis that is growing up
Pen15 entered the scene with a huge hook: 30-something actors would play middle schoolers, surrounded by actual middle schoolers. Yet creators and stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle quickly make you forget the hook as their performances are so engros...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How Kenneth Branagh turns his tumultuous childhood in Belfast into a personal narrative
Stories of children navigating their way through tumultuous times can give fresh perspective to the realities of the world. In Belfast, the audience gets to see the world at the beginning of the three-decade-long civil war between unionists who wante...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘tick, tick...BOOM!’ hits a little harder in the wake of Sondheim's death
Jonathan Larson (played by a pitch-perfect Andrew Garfield) and Stephen Sondheim (played by an empathetic Bradley Whitford) were two pillars of the musical theater world. The main difference: Larson was robbed of his chance to be as prolific as Sondh...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ is a fun romp with a heartfelt core
The premise of the show is simple: Four girls are assigned to room together at the fictional liberal arts Essex College in Vermont — and they could not be more different. Yet, when they learn to listen to each other they find more common ground than ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘Spencer’ tells a fable based on a true tragedy
In December 1991, Princess Diana spent three days at the Sandringham estate to celebrate Christmas with her royal family. The film Spencer takes a look into this Christmas holiday, focusing on Diana’s mental state and how she navigates the traditions...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Netflix’s ‘On The Verge’ Gives Comedic Voice to Middle Age
Julie Delpy’s new Netflix show On The Verge is a tale of determination. In all of her recent press interviews, Delpy (who created and stars in the show) speaks of how hard it was to get off the ground. She told The New York Times that financiers and ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Last Night in Soho' creates a nostalgic, Hitchcockian thriller
Last Night in Soho starts out innocently enough. Granted, Eloise struggles with some issues (it feels like a country girl heading into the big city to pursue her dreams) but things get a little strange. After renting a room on the top floor of an old...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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