by Trevor Mayes | May 26, 2010 | Characters, Movie Reviews |
Don’t worry — NO SPOILERS! Since watching A Perfect Getaway (written and directed by David Twohy) a few weeks back, I’ve been itching to write about it. This film actually managed to pull off something that many of my screenwriting friends and...
by Trevor Mayes | May 8, 2010 | Characters, Pre-writing, Quick Screenwriting Tips |
Don’t get hung up on writing character backstories. What’s important is knowing how your character will react to situations right now. We all react differently to trauma and events. For example, someone who grows up in an abusive household may become an...
by Trevor Mayes | Apr 21, 2010 | Characters |
A reader asks about Passive Protagonists: I was reading on your site and was wondering what your thoughts were on “passive protagonists” who get drug into hairy situations like Officer Hoyt in Training Day. I am writing a movie where the guy gets involved...
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by Trevor Mayes | Mar 21, 2010 | Characters |
That Wily Shakespeare In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet makes the argument: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Bollocks to that! If the play had instead been called Brent and Hildred, or Addison and...
by Trevor Mayes | Feb 25, 2010 | Characters |
Initial Business Okay, first — if you haven’t seen The Usual Suspects yet: 1) Punch yourself in the gut, because you deserve it. 2) Stop reading this article now — thar be spoilers… and this is one movie you do not want to spoil. [insert...
by Trevor Mayes | Dec 14, 2009 | Characters |
There’s a script that it seems I’ve been writing for the past 10 years. I’ll work on it for a while, get extremely frustrated, then push it aside in favor of something easier to write. Then the cycle repeats itself. The problem? My protagonist, in...
