Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this bi-weekly series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our daily schedule:. Today: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown. It is precisely what it sounds like: A list of all the scenes in the script accompanied by a brief description of the events that transpire. For purposes of this exercise, I have a slightly different take on scene. Here I am looking not just for individual scenes per se, but a scene or set of scenes that comprise one event or a continuous piece of action.
The value of this exercise:. This week: The Florida Project. You may download the movie script here. Written by Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch. IMDb plot summary: Six-year-old Moonee courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
Game of who can spit furthest on the car from balcony. STACY is mad. Stacy and Halley chat about their situation as the kids clean.
Jancey gets involved and makes friends with Moonee and Scooty. P 10—11 Dusk at the Magic Castle and Halley and other residents hang out smoking.
P 11—12 Halley has an interview with Social Services while Moonee sits. They eat with Halley in a dilapidated playground by the parking lot. The kids give a helicopter of tourists the finger as it lifts off for a tour. P 13—14 Halley and Ashley are on a night out, party mode and Latin food trucks.
Moonee and Scooty show Jancey how to score free ice cream by getting money from tourists with a little con job, something these kids do a lot. P 17—23 The tour continues to the Magic Castle and Moonee tells Jancey all about the residents room by room.
The go into the laundry room. Cut to Bobby at work in his office when all power goes off. He find the thrown switch and flips it back on. Have a nice day. Bobby checks out the CCTV and sees the three kids entering the utility room and pulling the switch. Plus she owes rent. Motel has bed bugs. They barely speak. P 25—27 Moonee and Scooty are thrown out of the lobby by Bobby for eating ice cream.
The kids go get Jancey and come back to check out Gloria sunbathing topless by the pool. Bobby has to come tell her to put them away. Halley, Ashley and the kids hang out on the stairway. P 29—33 Moonee and Scooty watch a couple arrive by cab to the motel. Brazilian wife upset and confused as husband booked wrong place for their honeymoon. Moonee tells Scooty she always knows when adults are gonna cry. The woman cries. P 33—34 Scooty shows Moonee his lighter with a naked lady on it.
Moonee and Scooty are sent to get waffles from Waffle Home again. Ashley sees how dirty they are. They all eat waffles with Halley, whose eyes are on her phone the whole time. P 34—36 Halley haggles with a perfume wholesaler. Halley and Moonee try to sell perfume to hotel guests outside a fancy hotel.
Halley can pay her rent now for the week. P 36—37 Dicky and his dad are leaving for good, they hand out old toys. Summer boredom. P 37—39 Halley and Ashley go hang in the pool, chat about being single and having kids.
Bobby tries to make them leave. Moonee discovers her mom sold the iPad, they need the money. Halley cheers her up with gummy bear pizza. P 39 Halley pays rent late to Bobby. P 40—42 Moonee, Scoot and Jancey check out the abandoned condos for a scary adventure.
The rest of the motel watches the smoke from the balcony. She screams at him to say if it was him, he blames it on Moonee and Jancey. The crowd watch the firefighters put out the fire.
Bobby and Gloria smoke as they watch the remains burn out. Ashley ignores Halley. Police come to break it up and Bobby gets mad with Patrice. P 48—49 Halley and Moonee are kicked out by the security guard of the fancy hotel for selling perfume.
They love it. Halley goes to their room, causes drama. P 53—56 Halley takes Moonee to Waffle Home to talk to Ashley, super pissed she orders a heap of food and makes Ashley take their order. Halley is so upset on the way home she chucks their doggy bag of food into the road. P 56 Halley and Moonee take swimsuit selfies, Moonee takes photos of Halley in sexy poses.
P 57 A church group hands out food to families, Moonee gets some bread. Halley argues the rate with the staff. Bobby comes over to help. P 63—64 Halley and Mooney stay over with Stacy, Jancey and her sister. P 64 They move back to their room. P 64—67 Moonee, Jancey and other kids play in the dilapidated playground. A suspicious man lingers and starts talking to them.
With only two-and-a-half weeks left in the calendar year, there are still a handful of prestige films waiting to drop in LA and NYC on Christmas Day. And with the latest Star Wars preparing to suck all the oxygen out of the room beginning tomorrow night, studios and specialty distributors are pushing their award campaigns into high gear. We've been anxiously waiting for A24 to release the screenplays to some of the best reviewed and most liked films of , and finally, our prayers have been answered.
Greta Gerwig's feature directorial debut takes us on the emotional journey of headstrong Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson during her senior year of high school as she butts heads with her mother, pursues boys, and complicates friendships, all in an attempt to break free of her life in Sacramento.
This is one of the must-see films of the year. Sean Baker followed up his Sundance, iPhone-shot darling Tangerine by shooting his next film on 35mm. The Florida Project tells the story of six-year-old Moonee and her mother Halley living in a budget motel in the shadow of Disney World, managed by the cantankerous Bobby. While Halley makes increasingly desperate decisions to provide for her daughter, Moonee runs around the budget motel with her gang of friends, creating their own imaginative fun, many times to the dismay and irritation of Bobby.
With a breakout performance from young Brooklynn Prince as Moonee and perhaps a career-best turn from Willem Dafoe as Bobby, The Florida Project continues to win over audiences. Over the past fourteen years, The Room has played sold-out midnight screenings across the globe, solidifying its claim as the "best worst movie ever. While Tommy and Greg inspire each other to pursue their impossible dreams, the eventual cost of that pursuit may be more than their friendship can bear.
This film will be particularly meaningful to filmmakers everywhere and no, seeing The Room first is not a requirement to enjoy this film immensely. As always, please use these scripts for educational purposes only. Also, don't wait to download them because we never know when the studios will take the screenplays off the internet.
Be sure to check out all of this year's award contending screenplays available for download and stay tuned as more scripts arrive.
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