Contrary to popular belief, characters in films do not speak as people do in real life. Information like this can feel misleading,...

As a script consultant, I can generally gauge the quality of a screenplay based on how the first ten pages play out… And, in those...

The plot sells the story, but the characters make it real. A great story means nothing if the audience is not interested or invested in...

I have always believed that the most annoying word in the filmmaking lexicon is “likeable”. Likeable, in its most common context, refers...

Rick and Ilsa. Buzz and Woody. George Clooney and anyone. Three of the greatest and most fulfilling screen pairings in cinema history....

Don Draper, Frank Underwood, Olivia Pope. Complex, human characters that are also the leads of arguably some of the most popular...

They say two’s company, three’s a crowd and eighteen’s a DMV line. But there’s no denying that the ensemble cast has been a crucial part...

“Love comes in many shapes and many sizes.” That, my friends, is a nonsense sentence giving an abstract concept an unnecessary physical...

As discussed in our recent article “Falling in Love with Settings”, romantic cinema is built on fantasy. Everything is ‘romanticized’;...