There are so many jobs within the entertainment industry, and the difficulty of obtaining employment varies depending on what position. For new comers, it is important to try to get your feet in the door as soon as possible, but how to accomplish this is a job in itself. There seem to always be a ...
The film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is very loosely based on the novel of the same name by a Chinese-American author named Lisa See. The changes in the film add confusion to a beautiful story which is set in China in the 19th century. Both versions, the film and the novel, explain a ...
These days, doesn’t everyone knows someone who’s newly become an aspiring screenwriter, you know, hacking away at their epic life story on their lunch hour? If among those you give gifts to during the holidays is a wannabe/would-be/might be beginning screenwriter, there are plenty of tools you can buy to help him or her pursue ...
People in Hollywood like to say that if Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be a screenwriter. But what about the philosopher Aristotle? Writers who know their family trees are aware that Aristotle laid the foundations of storytelling instruction around 335 BC in his work Poetics. Not much of western civilization has gone untouched by Aristotle’s ...