So I am not a massive Scrubs fan – I mean, I like Scrubs but I’m not an avid watcher. It’s just one of those shows that’s always on tv and of the bunch it’s probably the best during those hours I spend wasting away. It is pretty funny and JD does make me smile, so when I found out the new season wasn’t going to have Zach Braff or many of the other stars I wasn’t too sure about it. The whole show is from JD’s head, how can you take JD away?
But I’ve been sat here watching a few episodes of season 9 and though I’ve not worked out names yet I am quite enjoying it. It actually feels like it’s a different show, it’s not really Scrubs anymore but that isn’t a bad thing. It’s not good, but it’s not bad; it just is.
Part of me feels like this should actually just be a different show, that they are just feeding off the ready made fan base. But I guess if you can do it, why not? I am actually enjoying it though, I like the idea of getting to be inside the heads of the characters. I actually think it’s a technique more things should use, but then I guess it wouldn’t be so special.
What do you think? Any Scrubs fans? Any script writers? Me and my mate are going to attempt writing a horror movie so every time we watch a movie we get to call it research – maybe that’s just an excuse.
Why a horror movie? Well, they are my favourite to watch. And I reckon I understand the rules of writing horror movies the best, because I understand the movies themselves the best. I always watch them. I can almost always work out what is going to happen, because they always follow the same rules. I want to try to break some of those rules, but work out how to make it a good movie at the same time. A lot of the time, movies that don’t follow the rules, fail. I don’t want to fail!
Also, script is so much harder to write than you’d think. I attempted once (way back when I was 15) and it was a pile of **** (I am not sure if I should swear or not in my blog, I swear a lot but I don’t want to offend anyone. Comment on that too and tell me what you think). You need dialogue in a script, I mean come on – no one really wants to watch a silent movie (unless it’s a short film) but at the same time dialogue can destroy a script. I think from what I’ve learnt in reading and research is that less is more.
Try not to give everything away with the dialogue
Say as little as possible – don’t spell things out
Use dialogue to develop the characters – the way they speak, what they speak about, who it is they are
Any thing you want to share with me is always welcome – we’re all here to learn! Well some people are here for entertainment or ‘cause they’re bored, but those people can just help me learn – ‘cause heck, I’m always learning. I’m a student of the world and even when I’m not officially wearing that Student Status badge I’m always going to be a student. We all are. As soon as you stop learning, you may as well be dead.
Sorry, I ended up on a bit of a tangent with this post…
I like movies and tv series as much as you do. I also look at these things like research too. I've read and studied this very interesting book called "Cinema thinks" and since then, I analyze every movie I watch with those philosophical eyes. I've also developed a number of class projects around movies like "Truman's show", "August Rush", "16 blocks", two of which were published by a P4C newsletter.
ReplyDeleteI'm not much into horror movies - they scare me to death! =S
Great thing you're always trying to learn from people and situations - I'm also proud to call myself a good learner, there are few things in life I appreciate as much as learning.
Kiss you Pennie, take care and smile. =)
That's not a excuse at all. Movies do inspire me a lot on philosophy. I used to analyse movies philosophically a lot, but I barely do it anymore due to laziness. The last one I did was Fight Club. In fact, I had to write a paper on it for my Aesthetics class.
ReplyDeleteYou already swore in some of your posts in this blog, I am afraid!
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I love Scrubs, and I thought the new format and everything was going to fail terribly, but I actually like it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. "A lot of the time, movies that don’t follow the rules, fail." - yes. There has to be at least some objectivity in everything, even in art.