Machinima Review and Proposal

My biggest inspiration among the screenplays was probably the Pulp Fiction screenplay. Pulp Fiction is such an iconic movie and an original idea, but it would be nothing without the attention to detail provided by the script. I like how it jumps right into it. The reader is left in the dark a little bit in the beginning. They have to catch up to the conversation. It’s a very natural conversation, but it makes you wonder where it is leading. The first scene sets the tone for the rest of the film and helps to make it such a great movie.

Another great screenplay is the Back to the Future screenplay. What I most respect about this one is that the attention to detail is even more significant because exact scenes get revisited. There cannot be any changes to the setting or scenery, yet the characters need to have different responses to the same situations. This movie, more than most, needs to tie in many aspects from the beginning to the end. They also had to write it assuming it would make enough money to have a sequel, which was pretty bold, but turned out to be extremely successful.

Groundhog Day is similar to Back to the Future in that it needs to repeat many scenes, but more so than back to the future does this movie need to maintain the basis of each scene. It needs to start out the exact same way, but must be redone completely. It’s not like Back to the Future in that it can be the exact same cut shown over again. It’s also interesting how it describes the main character, because there is so much depth to him. The scenery is crucial because that is one of the main things that get at the main character.

After reading these screenplays along with a few others and the videos, I have an idea of how I would like to present my screenplay. The specific idea is not quite developed yet, but so far it is a remake of the whole captivity part of the book. I want to have the events play out the same way, but almost overplay the character’s actions to kind of mock how they handle the situation. I don’t want to just do this to Marcus, but rather to all of the characters involved in those chapters, because I feel like they all acted in strange ways, and I want to portray how I interpreted the situation.