Richard Walter's Top 21 Screenwriting Lessons

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1) 0:06 - Value Of Ideas
2) 2:47 - Writing Is Frustration
3) 4:09 - Daydreams For Dollars
4) 8:02 - First Step In Writing A Screenplay
5) 11:18 - Discipline Over Talent
6) 13:05 - Beautiful! Beautiful!
7) 15:47 - Most Important Lesson Of My Life
8) 18:57 - Prince Of Denmark
9) 20:57 - Heart Or Lungs?
10) 22:36 - Action Defines Character
11) 26:10 - William Goldman Story
12) 27:59 - Time
13) 31:09 - A Shorter Thing
14) 34:40 - Write It Down
15) 36:50 - Crazy As A Loon
16) 37:21 - Best Thing To Happen To Writers
17) 38:53 - Screenplays and Novels
18) 42:19 - Hard Work
19) 44:24 - Art Is Not Smart
20) 50:43 - Great Art
21) 56:22 - It’s All About Story
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@SasapessoS 6 лет назад

This is storytelling lessons, not just screenwriting. great tips for all creative works.

@keyurdesaicomedy 3 года назад

I really like this guy. I've been subscribed and warching your channel for a while now. I love the questions you ask. I think you're a really good interviewer.

@charlessmyth 6 лет назад

I thought that "£ideas are useless" was a rather provocative statement :-) However, after my initial evaluation of an elevator pitch for The Godfather and Jaws, for example, the elevator pitches for Alien, The French Connection (I and II) and Juno, rapidly and alarmingly demonstrated that Richard Walter's assertion, that ideas are useless, it's the story that matters, made more and more sense. For me, this raises two points: 1). For most of the time, ideas expressed as elevator pitches are useless, and you only know what you have, after you write the idea up as a story. 2). As the most evocative part of the elevator pitch becomes less and less evocative than Mafia Godfather; Great White shark, etc., the elevator pitch has to become more complicated, so that the greater level of detail, evokes more interest, in the idea, which, at its most basic, for Juno, is: Teenage girl gets pregnant. . . Teenage girl gets pregnant, and has to choose who is the best to adopt her baby. . . Regardless of the confounding complications of elevator pitches and their value as ideas, they can be very useful as a way for the writer to keep their eye on the ball, and not get lost in the wilderness of mirrors that is the story.

@chrissierg 6 лет назад

love this guy... :)

@prasadsienna8879 2 года назад

What brilliant pearls!

@zhorappp-th 2 года назад

I love him

@jdovma1 6 лет назад

On the first topic... I'm not sure Mr. Walters fully got what the academic he was quoting meant. Walters seemed to frame it as "ideas" meaning that loose thought that becomes the premise and ultimately the story once fleshed out; the idea for the movie. In that case, he's right. Ideas are a dime a dozen. But I think what the academic he was criticizing was actually saying was that we're training writers to focus so much on story, that substance is falling by the wayside. I think he meant "ideas" meaning something meaningful beyond "what happens" and "what it means to the characters". 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird, Interstellar (I don't know why those are the stories that came to mind but...), these are stories that are dripping with "ideas". John Wick, Creed, The Conjuring, 10 Things I Hate About You, Room, Three Billboards... none of these films are about "ideas". You can have a fantastic movie that hits on many levels, and they can be really only about ourselves, either for cathartic or vicarious experience; not anything challenging. And that's fine. But I think that's what the academic Walters is citing is saying. Not that ideas for movies are more important than story, but that the ideas OF the story are. And I don't disagree.

@graycious3 6 лет назад

Praises

@dr.aniasara7038 3 года назад

My Muse's are paramount to creating a good story.

@MarcoR6 6 лет назад

Haven't I seen this already?

@FlemmyMcDuff 6 лет назад

its all about the execution of the ideas. ideas dont write themselves

@thereccher8746 6 лет назад

John Truby swears the idea is everything, he states that you have to spend ample time deducing the quality of the idea to see if it works. Who'se right?

@larkmacallan4257 6 лет назад

In the 80s, a series of movies came out that all had the same premise, two people switching bodies. there was vice versa, and one with jamie lee curtis, there's been a ton of them. Then BIG came out with tom hanks and blew them all out of the water. Ideas are shit, it's all in the execution. Read "Hello! Lied the Agent, and other bullshit you hear as a hollywood TV writer" by Ian Gurvitz and "How to write movies for fun and profit" by Lennon and garant. Best two books I've read on screenwriting

@carrottoponcrak 6 лет назад

Richard Walter has said previously, "there are no bad ideas, only bad stories." He's saying it's not necessarily about the idea itself (any idea can become a great movie depending on the storyteller), it's about how you communicate the idea through the story that matters.

@bradebronson8835 6 лет назад

John Truby is also a professional that gives great advice. Both these guys have something to offer. I'm currently reading The Anatomy of Story. Good read so far.

@MikeRoberts1964 2 года назад

Every expert has different advice.....Stephen King says notebooks 'immortalize bad ideas', Dean Koontz says he likes them. John Irving says he needs to know the ending before he starts, King says that kills the fun in writing a novel for him....

@dhyanmukta 6 лет назад

trafficking in your own imagination , love it

@dr.aniasara7038 3 года назад

That's why I didn't good to UCLA, and it would ruin my natural ability to write as well as I do.

@geoffhoutman1557 5 месяцев назад

I think the prof mispronounced “Incoherent Vice”. Total failure of a screen story. I’ve been told “if you read the book it all makes sense”. That’s not how it works tho...