For those of you like me, who possess an unending curiosity for movies and importantly, HOW they are actually made, this is practically El Dorado. The blog Mystery Man on Film has uncovered a transcript from a 5 day series of brainstorming sessions between George Lucas, Stephen Spielburg and young writer gun for hire at the time, Lawrence Kasdan.
The result is sheer delight for anyone who wants to understand the screenwriting process, and how plot, character, pacing, exposition, structure and story all intersect on that cosmic plane we call movie magic. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, it’s an amazing joy to behold. The site has a further link to either PDFs, or a HTML version.
Check out the link to Mystery Man’s blog here, also spend some time around his site – he has some fantastic film and movie screenwriting resource links here, not to mention writing blogs to a stack of his mates and acquintances. Thanks also to AICN where I first spotted this gem.
