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The joy of reading movie scripts

6 March 2012 4:02 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

They’re the foundation of any movie, but they’re often a great read in their own right. Here, Ryan explains why movie scripts can be so fascinating…

To the casual eye, a film or television script might look like a somewhat dry jumble of dialogue snippets, arcane abbreviations, and brief scene descriptions. Some might even argue that reading a script for pleasure is a bit like staring at the blueprint for a classic building instead of visiting the real thing.

Once the conventions of scriptwriting are understood, however, the hundred-or-so pages of an average script are often fascinating to read, for several reasons.

Some scripts are simply entertaining in their own right. Screenwriter Shane Black, for example, who’s famous for his sharp dialogue and creative insults, injects just as much humour and personality into his scene descriptions. In his first screenplay, Lethal Weapon, Black described an expensive Beverly »

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