Improving Dialogue In A Screenplay With The 3 Wells - Matthew Kalil

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In this Film Courage video interview, Author/Writer/Instructor Matthew Kalil on Improving Dialogue In A Screenplay With The 3 Wells.
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@CentaurusRelax314 4 года назад

This guy may be the only one of the 'script geniuses' who doesn't seem like a bitter, failed screenwriter. Sounds/looks like a genuinely good dude.

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@shamanite 4 года назад

To write dialogues, I draw a lot from how I'm speaking, because I think it sounds more natural, but unfortunately, all my characters end up speaking like me, with no variation.

@beebuzz959 4 года назад

Don't worry in the first drafts. But after you're done and know the characters better, go through it again, once for each character by focusing on just that character, and look at the lines and they're wants, and change it according to how they'd say it.

@Ruylopez778 4 года назад

Tip from Brandon Sanderson: For more distinctive voices think about the motivations of each character, education, background, slang, the way they speak, diction, tone. And from Karl Iglesias: Why is the character saying that, and does it match their objective? Having two characters in the scene contrasted can also add to the scene e.g. one formal, one casual.

@thereseember2800 3 года назад

Then try adding a Swiss Karaoke Yodeler character or a Hindi telemarketer scam artist who keeps being interrupted by his victim-an elderly, hard-of-hearing Australian farmer who’s calling his ducks during the call.

@everafter2611 3 года назад

Once you develop your Characters It'll be better

@kevinreily2529 2 года назад

There is no way around hard work, no matter how talented you are. You only get better by writing a lot …and having people who know what a story is, critique you. Hemingway had a reputation as someone who drank a lot and caroused around Paris with his friends. You barely hear a mention of his incredible “work ethic”, his discipline. He woke up every morning at 6 AM and wrote straight through till 1 PM. He was one of the most disciplined novelists ever. Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 4 года назад

It's worth saying somewhere... That the biggest concern in writing dialogue is the fine balance between presuming the audience can understand subtext in the dubious forms we print and then assuming we still have to communicate some points very clearly. Audiences tend to dislike being talked down to... so over emphasis is difficult to avoid, yet ambiguity rears up when (like me) the printed word is only poignant (truly poignant) on accident. There was a BRILLIANT scene in an episode of "House MD" when Wilson says, "Dying is easy. Living is hard." Followed by some theatrics as he and House struggle with the ramifications, and then House retorts, "That wasn't nearly as poignant as it sounded." Such is the struggle for truly remarkable dialogue. When it works, it's probably an accident. ;o)

@meg-k-waldren 4 года назад

If the set up and theme is sprinkled into the story earlier, most audiences will get the subtext and poignancy.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 4 года назад

@@meg-k-waldren Probably... There's a pretty good channel called "Cinefix" who delves a bit into how the Director "teaches the audience his language" in every film... BUT I'm only pointing out observation, not trying to engineer a new film industry... I can stand by my sentiment... it's a struggle. Some do it well (probably accidentally) and some don't. This is a craft business, and today you can be brilliant, and tomorrow "dumber than a bucket full of hair"... ;o)

@mukiwabanda2794 4 года назад

Great dialogue is often a result of Spontaneity. But you need a good amount of lived experience in the real world, achievements and failures, before you can write spontaneously (instinctively) and meaningfully at the same time. And always stick to what you know. You can't fake it.

@josephvanwyk2088 4 года назад

Hahaha, my first thought was, "mm he sounds like a South African" - then low and behold haha. Represent son!

@Havensight 4 года назад

Selfde hier! Sal beslis Matthew se boek kry.

@tomsiebert155 3 года назад

Yeah bru, I though the exact same thing.

@jamilnasim874 2 года назад

Represent colonization? lol

@josephvanwyk2088 2 года назад

@@jamilnasim874 let me guess? butt hurt over dead people 400 years ago?

@jamilnasim874 2 года назад

@@josephvanwyk2088 Nah I'm super happy, they're finally killing or scaring off all the Yt farmers in SA :)

@jag5798 4 года назад

Dialog sometimes can be on the nose if its part of that person’s personality of being blunt and uncaring. Therefore, wouldn’t dialog be a personality factor?

@invidioustv8890 3 года назад

Well thats the biggest issue with most beginning screenwriters: giving their characters all unique and separate voices and styles of talking, and not making them all sound like different versions of yourself.

@sevionmelidan1682 Год назад

This is not a sarcastic answer: I'm fairly blunt and uncaring myself, but I think people are rarely only those two things. I'm also usually polite but have like, less than zero patience for bullshit and can suddenly become very impolite if I think someone is wasting my time. Hopefully my real world example helps you.

@johnrobinson4445 3 года назад

So, no mention here of "the 3 wells" at all. Oh well. lol

@sampetty1232 2 года назад

Yup I too was disappointed by a title that does not match the video.

@peterkalyabe7553 Год назад

@@sampetty1232 I am increasingly noticing mismatched titles in recent videos.

@tenkaichiyo Месяц назад

He mentions the memory well, the external source well (e.g. employing literary, linguistical knowledge), and I think the final one is the listening well.. but he doesn't say that directly.

@TheGreatTimSheridan 4 года назад

no you cant teach screen writing.. thats pure inspiration and hard work.. what you can teach is critique and structure. these are of little help when youre trying to be fresh and creative... but they help you to change or throw away the junk.

@kyovibe 2 года назад

Im so happy that I can just think and write my scripts in my mind...I have 9 stories ready in my mind..there is a quadrzillion storage up there

@nerdyworld938 Год назад

@@kyovibe same! ☺️

@ladyediting 10 месяцев назад

Saying you can't teach it would mean the first draft of good screenwriters are for sure good, so that's not true at all. I know some screenwriters who were absolutely terrible at the beginning and after learning they became really good, so yeah it's a lot of talent and sensibility and inspiration like you said but it's totally teachable

@mikehess4494 2 года назад

Thank you.

@cinechris5886 4 года назад

Nice lighting, 3/4 rear,

@AndrewDChristie 7 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@filmcourage 7 месяцев назад

Hi Andrew! Thank you again. We see you are exploring deeper into our library. Great to see that you continue to find value!

@filmcourage 4 года назад

How much do you rely on your own conversations for dialogue in your scripts?

@meg-k-waldren 4 года назад

He's so right. Blood Diamond is one pf my favorite movies cause DeCaprio really paid attention to South African cadence, nailed it 85%. My having lived in SA for high school, DeCaprio's performance was awesome for me. Personally I like to rely on other people's conversations in general. I only pull from my conversational experiences when its an emotional scene or the characters and I have something in common. I have a sci-fi script I'm working on right now in which the protaginist tells a girl "my parents believed in love" - the subtext there being the parents stayed married despite having problems. To me that line is effective and also emotional.

@d.comptonambrose4422 4 года назад

Watch the news or listen to the radio whenever current events around the world or foreign affairs come up, you hear from a lot of different people from different cultures and countries around the world, as well as how people speak in other languages besides just English or Spanish (I try to stick to indy media whenever I can, btw)

@Crazy_Rich_Asian 4 года назад

I do exactly that. I make my dialogues relatable to people of the same background as my heroes.

@muzikmanner6019 4 года назад

In the project I'm working on now, the protagonist is a mid western guy, so he would say leavin' instead of leaving or workin' not working. The female lead is a well educated L.A. girl, so she speaks almost like a TV anchor woman who slips into "valley girl" at times. The script is set in 1980 San Francisco, so I also incorporate slang of the period and place. I try to be economical with dialogue, keeping it short and crisp. One of my favorite uses of character dialogue is Kathleen Turner's character Joanna/China Blue in "Crimes of Passion".

@bluerabbit1236 4 года назад

Film Courage After watching so many Film Courage tutorials, I have learned a few things:) Conversation is not dialogue. Daily life conversation is boring and doesn’t sound interesting at all. The important knowledge here is to write the dialogue in a way that it sounds authentic. I discovered that dialogue is more indirect compared to a conversation and it’s a bit clever banter. It also has a rhythm like a ping pong ball that goes back and forth between characters. It’s really hard to describe but when you read good scripts and watch a lot of movies, one day it just clicks and you have a better idea what works and what doesn’t. My supernatural thriller script got a 7 on Blacklist so I feel close to success. Thanks for everything, this couldn’t have happened without you.

@michaelserna6229 4 года назад

Brilliant information!

@jeffmcmahon3278 Год назад

Am I correct in assuming Matthew is from Sth Africa, maybe?

@JoanieDoeShadow 4 года назад

It's funny that he should use Trevor Noah as an example of another South African. Noah's accent sounds more British while Kilal sounds very Dutch. Growing up in Southern California the first few years of my life I was very aware of regional accents because both of my parents are from Kentucky. We got asked about where they were from all of the time and it felt awkward. I love linguistics, amazing part of human relations.

@raphaelmotta7630 4 года назад

Very intresting. I´m taking on dialoge writing recently and this was realy helpfull.

@tommycharles4666 4 года назад

This is the most basic information there is. Don't write on the nose and listen to how people speak in the real world. Dialogue 101. But I'll give you another tip: After you finish a scene or two, put it away for a day or so. Then re-read your dialogue. You'll usually find that you can trim either the first or last line off of just about every speaker. Your script will be a lot better for it.

@raphaelmotta7630 4 года назад

@@tommycharles4666 Thanks! I´m fairly new to screenwriting, so any advice is very welcome.

@simonefabiane9562 2 года назад

Imagine my shock when I realised this guy is South African. I thought his accent was strange. I am a South African too. Never heard that type of Aussie/Kiwi cross breed of an accent.

@gonzaloleon-gelpi9151 4 года назад

I really like this guy.

@odracir3300 3 года назад

To help the characters into conversation, I'd do it like in real life: make a statement then ask a question... shouldn't be harder than that

@alenabayti5622 4 года назад

Inner core Inner core important

@thomaskubrak1576 4 года назад

Do you guys have an instagram?? Trying to tag you in some posts

@jeffmcmahon3278 Год назад

Should have waited until the end before I commented on his background.

@12-OneTwo Год назад

What were the 3 Wells?

@filmcourage Год назад

We believe Matthew explains the 3 wells in this segment - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Loeye7dhTs.html

@terrorgaming459 4 года назад

There are no rules

@georgezubat7225 4 года назад

There are no rules, just good ideas.

@zazenbo 3 года назад

I miss my wife

@sampetty1232 2 года назад

Me too 😉

@tommycharles4666 4 года назад

Are all of these videos just people trying to sell books? Close to unsubscribing. Yet another video where the person talks for several minutes but says basically nothing new. 'Don't write on the nose dialogue' and 'listen to how people speak in the real world' is dialogue 101. Maybe useful for someone who is absolutely new, I'll grant.

@filmcourage 4 года назад

Hi Tommy, thank you for your feedback. We certainly interview authors and will ask them about sections in their book. Overall we do our best to speak with filmmakers, writers, authors, teachers, producers and actors. All at different levels to bring various levels of experience and perspective to the platform. Most people we interview are hoping to sell their movies, books, or other works but we structure our conversations in a way we believe provides value to our viewers.

@rebeccaoliver7977 2 года назад

Interesting comment. I’ve watched hundreds of Film Courage’s videos because of the great information. But he the full interview and when repackaged by snips or by theme combining several interviews. Over the last couple of days I’ve been watching RU-vids on dialogue. Perhaps with this topic more than any I recall, the same things are being said. That didn’t fully hit me till your comment. I’m left wondering if perhaps this is an area that even good writers struggle so don’t have the insight or strategies that many have for other craft topics. Sorkin talks about dialogue being musical and he hears it. Dialogue is more difficult to teach. Like the writer’s voice. Someone can’t give you a voice - you can just have your voice beaten out if you by people who don’t get the writing or in an MFA program where all writers leave sounding the same. @Film Courage - thank you for years of outstanding work over the years!