Saturday, February 10, 2024

Storytelling Tips 1 & 2 on Irony in Terrence Malik's A HIDDEN LIFE

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 Hopefully, these two short videos speak for themselves. A HIDDEN LIFE is a cinematic masterpiece of storytelling. A significant factor in i...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Moral Premise Storycraft Podcast Ep. 2: Can Historical Fiction Be True?

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

Sound of Freedom vs. Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny

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This blog post is a cry for reason in the pursuit of excellence and a plea to destroy the love of mediocrity. The Sound of Freedom movie, st...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Stan meets Stan Freberg

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Some years ago in L.A. at CBS Studios where the the BIOLA Media Conference was held for which I was a segment producer and speaker, I was pr...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The Dilemma of Telling the Truth in Fiction

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Writing true stories is a hard and dicey affair.  Recently, I experienced a paradoxical rejection of my historical novel ( The Wizard Clip H...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Woody Allen, Theologian

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Yesterday, a friend and script client suggested I watch Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight with Colin Firth and Emma Stone. I feel li...
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Monday, December 19, 2022

Can Historical Fiction be True?

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While preparing to print advance review copies of a historical novel I recently completed, I asked my followers for help fine tuning the tit...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Nadine Labaki - A Benchmark Filmmaker

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  I screened Nadine Labaki's WHERE DO WE GO NOW  for the second time last night with my wife, Pam, and our house guest, Yi Wang from Chi...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Pope in the Pool

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 Blake Snyder in his book SAVE THE CAT made "Pope in the Pool" famous. For the few of you who are not familiar with Blake's no...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Billy Wilder 9 Screenwriting Tips

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Let me expand a bit on this good Instagram list of nine screenwriting tips supposedly from Billy Wilder. 1. THE AUDIENCE IS FICKLE. This doe...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Terrence Malick and A-List Actors

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I was asked if I could explain why a friend had difficulty maintaining his focus while watching Terrence Malick's A HIDDEN LIFE (2019). ...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Ordeals and Redemption - Video Blog

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Below is a video blog post for my Moral Premise followers based on a recent trip to Europe scouting for a documentary titled The Sword of St...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Behzad Nohoseini on Story Structure

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

You Can't Twist the Fabric of Reality

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This short segment of a Jordan Peterson talk is an excellent description of The Heart of The Moral Premise concept. "You Can't Twis...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Storytelling and Pop Music

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 Here is a YouTube episode from the popular musical theorist Adam Neely about Céline Dion's performance of All by Myself, a live perform...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Tips on Reading and Understanding Screenplays

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Here are some tips for folks who want to read a screenplay but find it confusing and unconventional. If I miss something important, tell me ...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

How Invisible Moral Decisions Effect Visible Physical Plots

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I'm helping a friend who has ALS write his memoir. He's a retired automotive design engineer who side-lined as arm-chair philosopher...