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I'm absolutely drowning in reading work (with 7 more books and 8 more scripts rolling in in just the past two days), so I haven't been able to stick my head up long enough to formulate any real blog posts this week.
I do have a bad random misspelled word though, in a script co-written by a young actor (okay, it was Nick Cannon) obviously looking to play the main character himself. In one scene, he is devastated when he is fired as a dancer in a video shoot.
KENNY
(whaling)
I'm sorry Mr. James!
I just couldn't get the image of Nick Cannon with a harpoon out of my head...
posted by Scott the Reader @ 12:41 AM
13 Comments:
Let me be the first to say, Kill your parentheticals! Kill em dead. Those little leeches will suck up a full page or two if you let them flourish throughout your screenplay.
Second: It's "I'm sorry, Mr James" (note comma).
Third, my question to that screenplay author: If you don't love writing enough to polish every line, why are you writing?
"Yo, yo-- call me Ish-diddy, G...."
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great white wail B
A few of my favs (and yes, I'm using parentheticals):
No fishing aloud
(okay we'll be quiet)
Balling in grief
(that's one way to cope, I suppose)
A fowl cent
(chicken money?)
Illuding the police
(so you lied, but did you get away?)
gorilla fighters
(apes with AK47's)
her panty hoes
(gardening thongs)
contributing to a miner
(they need it for oxygen helmets)
new moan lawn
(um .......)
"She was a lesion to the students' organization"
That line made it through two editors before it got to me.
I don't see what the issue is -- obviously he was fired because dancers are artists and creative types have a lot of crossover with Greenpeace and Greenpeace and whaling cannot peacefully coexist. Duh.
A music video with whaling is probably a role best played by Ted Nugent...
that image is just so wrong
On the flip side, Scott's reading a complete screenplay with bad spelling/grammar.
As opposed to my incomplete script with perfect grammar/spelling.
It's nice to see ubran movies going out to sea...
isn't it Nick Canon? (jk)
Speaking of incorrect malpropismsi cracking you up... I saw this in a Home Depot women's restroom one day:
TANISHIA IS A HOE!
(under it, in a different hand)
Not a shovel?
Cracked me up!
Perhaps he didnt have his see legs, you know, as a dancer.
Heck, I'm editing, or "polishing," if you will, a series of papers for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and while the "eminences grises" embed references and run spellchecks, the dangling participles and split infinitives are mind-blowing. Poor writing occurs on all levels. But not yours.
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