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I believe that a more informed audience raises the bar for storytelling. That examining the techniques used to tell great stories makes your own writing better and your appreciation for the stories deeper.

With Lessons from the Screenplay, I make videos that analyze movie scripts to examine exactly how and why they are so good at telling their stories. Part educational series and part love letter to awesome films, Lessons from the Screenplay aims to be a fun way to learn more about your favorite films and help us all become better storytellers.

I’ll be releasing new videos every couple weeks, and taking suggestions about what scripts I should look at in future episodes.

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1:00:01

The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby | @BeyondTheScreenplay

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1:07

What’s new on my other channels

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Shared 3 years ago

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20:32

Why Mass Effect Should Be the Next Game of Thrones

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Shared 3 years ago

308K views

16:33

How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life

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Shared 3 years ago

352K views

13:37

The Soul of Good Character Design

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Shared 4 years ago

893K views

14:59

How A Christmas Carol Perfectly Demonstrates Five-Act Structure

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Shared 4 years ago

96K views

14:40

A Few Good Men — Writing a Final Battle

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Shared 4 years ago

322K views

1:00

I started a second channel! Check out @StoryModeOn

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Shared 4 years ago

112K views

11:58

How Coraline Borrows from Ancient Forms of Storytelling

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Shared 4 years ago

263K views

10:23

How Stranger Things Conveys Tone and Style

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Shared 4 years ago

206K views

15:36

Christopher Nolan vs. Interstellar — The Nolan Crosscut

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Shared 4 years ago

383K views

12:57

The Rules (Guidelines) of Adventure — The Pirates of the Caribbean

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Shared 4 years ago

262K views

9:19

One X-Cellent Scene — Attack on Division X

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Shared 4 years ago

188K views

15:13

Mad Men — Layers of Meaning

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Shared 4 years ago

900K views

12:13

Jaws — Assembling a Top-Tier Team (feat. @TierZoo)

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Shared 4 years ago

115K views

16:57

Iron Man vs. Captain America — The 11-Year Character Arc

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Shared 4 years ago

727K views

15:58

Parasite vs. Sunset Boulevard — The Disillusionment Arc

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Shared 4 years ago

275K views

13:43

Parasite — The Power of Symbols

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Shared 5 years ago

1.7M views

9:50

Casino Royale — How Action Reveals Character

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Shared 5 years ago

566K views

22:51

The Last of Us (feat. Writer & Creative Director Neil Druckmann) | @StoryModeOn

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Shared 5 years ago

580K views

13:06

Aliens vs. Terminator 2 — How to Sequel like James Cameron

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Shared 5 years ago

362K views

10:39

The Matrix — Exposition in Action

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Shared 5 years ago

527K views

16:47

The Hidden Structure of Before Sunset

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Shared 5 years ago

434K views

11:04

Minority Report — When the Story World Becomes The Villain

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Shared 5 years ago

540K views

9:31

One Marvelous Scene — Spider-Man: Homecoming

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Shared 6 years ago

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18:50

Adaptation.

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Shared 6 years ago

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10:45

The Silence of the Lambs — Dissecting a Scene

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Shared 6 years ago

599K views

9:22

Searching — Reformatting a Thriller

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Shared 6 years ago

235K views

9:47

Groundhog Day — An Inescapable Premise

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Shared 6 years ago

658K views

10:45

Annihilation — The Art of Self-Destruction

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Shared 6 years ago

677K views

12:53

Good Will Hunting — The Psychology of Character

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Shared 6 years ago

939K views

9:47

The Devil Wears Prada — The First 10 Pages

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Shared 6 years ago

798K views

10:48

Shaun of the Dead — Why Comedy Needs Character

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Shared 6 years ago

857K views

12:09

A Quiet Place — How to Write Sound into a Screenplay

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Shared 6 years ago

401K views

12:19

No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience

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Shared 6 years ago

2.6M views

12:16

Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist

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Shared 6 years ago

465K views

9:16

Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain

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598K views

11:34

Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character

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517K views

12:11

The Last Jedi — Forcing Change

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949K views

11:30

Collateral — The Midpoint Collision

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Shared 7 years ago

642K views

12:44

Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone

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Shared 7 years ago

816K views

13:23

Get Out — A New Perspective in Horror

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Shared 7 years ago

1.5M views

15:42

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Breaking Convention

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Shared 7 years ago

783K views

14:44

The Avengers — Defining an Act

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Shared 7 years ago

720K views

12:48

Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots

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Shared 7 years ago

383K views

11:24

Logan vs. Children of Men — The End is in the Beginning

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Shared 7 years ago

650K views

10:06

Blade Runner — Constructing a Future Noir

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Shared 7 years ago

593K views

10:20

Memento — Telling a Story In Reverse

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Shared 7 years ago

665K views

11:09

Game of Thrones — How to Evoke Emotion

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Shared 7 years ago

1M views

12:51

Telling a Story from the Inside Out

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Shared 7 years ago

748K views

17:08

True Detective vs. Se7en — Creating Light Amongst The Dark

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13:35

Arrival — Examining an Adaptation

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Shared 7 years ago

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13:42

Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens — The Fault in Our Star Wars

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Shared 7 years ago

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11:41

Breaking Bad — Crafting a TV Pilot

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Shared 8 years ago

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13:08

Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense

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Shared 8 years ago

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9:18

When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions

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Shared 8 years ago

812K views

13:24

The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration

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Shared 8 years ago

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10:45

Ex Machina — The Control of Information

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Shared 8 years ago

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16:37

Whiplash vs. Black Swan — The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist

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Shared 8 years ago

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10:16

The Shining — Quietly Going Insane Together

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Shared 8 years ago

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