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Title: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: TexasGirl on March 28, 2008, 01:39 PM
I am SOOOO excited to have found this site:

http://www.dailyscript.com/index.html

I printed out two scripts from movies I was familiar with both the movie and the book. I am going to watch those movies TONIGHT and follow along with the script. I think this will help me immeasurably in adapting my novel.

I'm very excited! They had the script to my favorite movie of all time! I can't believe it!  I'm off to learn!  :giddyup
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: BettRest on March 28, 2008, 07:44 PM
Daily script is really great.  I'm doing a telenovela within a novel, and it really helped to find old episodes. 
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: amyo on March 28, 2008, 08:08 PM
OK, so exactly HOW much time am I supposed to spend reading the script to AIRPLANE? Oh, my.   :ceilingdance
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: RES on March 28, 2008, 08:18 PM
Thank you for this link!!!
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: MarciaK on March 29, 2008, 12:35 AM
A virtual mine of characters voices.  :wow and  :thankyou
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: Virginia Bartolus on March 29, 2008, 06:38 AM
Thank you, thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.  :bananadance
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: MaudeStephany on March 29, 2008, 07:32 AM
OOOH! I could definitely spend a LOT of time reading here... I'm not sure if I should thank you or not, though... I spend far too much time playing online!  :dr

Maude  :frog
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: TexasGirl on March 29, 2008, 08:17 AM
OMG OMG, I am having such a GREAT time with this!

I was reading Possession and can't BELIEVE how different the script is from the movie. I mean, entirely different TONE! But both are GREAT! It's really humbling, and in many ways freeing, to realize what I write is going to be changed so much. I mean, I don't have to think about what they will do to it, I can just write it the way I think it should be. It really is just a skeleton and could be fleshed out so many possible ways.

I don't think I'm going to sleep for a while! I am so jazzed! I can't believe I just got sucked in to yet another interpretation of a book I love!
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: Stephanie J. Blake on March 29, 2008, 10:08 AM
This is soo cool! Thank you1
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: YAchicka on March 29, 2008, 11:59 AM
Laaaaaa  :music Lovin this -  :thankyou
It shows just how much film is truly a collaborative art.
I was just reading 40-year-old Virgin and for the waxing scene Andy just screams a few times and gives up halfway through - meanwhile, the finished scene is so hilarious! "We're gonna need more wax!" (And yes, refering to 40YOV as 'art' is a bit of a stretch, I know, but it is funny as poo!)
Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: CC on March 29, 2008, 12:08 PM
YAChicka, since this is the screenwriting section, I have to comment on how much you resemble the actress Diane Lane in your new avatar picture.

It's eerie!  And cute! ;D

Okay, back to business now...
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: dramaqueen on April 01, 2008, 02:27 AM
you could try www.script-o-rama.com too.  When I started screenwriting, I found a TON there!

Happy reading!
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: YAchicka on April 01, 2008, 05:18 AM
Aw, shucks, thanks CC! I love Diane Lane -  :flowers
Now if only I had her agent...
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: Jeannine on April 01, 2008, 07:50 AM
OMG, I LOVE reading scripts (tho I would never attempt to write one, lol). Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Amazing site with hundreds of popular scripts to read
Post by: crissachappell on July 16, 2008, 03:49 PM
Thank you so much! I always use Drew's Script O Rama (and my students are always asking for websites to download scripts)