In case you haven't read this script yet...here is a link to the great Lady Bird script by writer/director/filmmaker Greta Gerwig. Every scene in this film is conflict, conflict, conflict. I really wish she would have won the Oscar for this original screenplay, but I'm sure she'll have at least a couple in her future - and she did win several other awards during awards season. Any story that opens with a quote from Joan Didion gets extra kudos from me - major extra kudos to the brilliant Greta Gerwig!
http://www.la-screenwriter.com/2017/12/12/read-the-lady-bird-screenplay/
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Billy:
Definitely a great example of a moderate/low budget type screenplay that made a splash.
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Thank you so much for posting this!
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Thanks, dude. Solid site. I downloaded script and subscribed to newsletter.
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I read this recently before watching the film. I love the tone of the story and the script really motivated me to go through my own work and trim as much fat off of it as possible (whilst still telling a cohesive story)
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Thanks/you're welcome, all.
I remember hearing Ms. Gerwig say on a talk show recently that this story was about "how one person's coming of age is another person's letting go." I think that's what makes this story so universally relatable. I don't have to be an eighteen year-old girl or her middle-aged mom to know or understand those feelings. She is brilliant at creating what relationships and real life are about, and in portraying the feelings and the degrees of those feelings that manifest in those relationships.
She is a great storyteller and filmmaker who has been doing this for quite some time, and I am so glad for her that she has catapulted to that next level with Lady Bird. I saw one of her first films, Nights and Weekends, ten years ago, and connecting with her characters and recognizing her talents was a no-brainer. I wrote about her a few years ago here, when she was a relative unknown writer/filmmaker, and am very happy to be writing about her now, when she has deservedly "hit it big."
Major Kudos to Greta Gerwig!
P.S. - and Major Kudos to Steppenwolf Theater's Laurie Metcalf - she sure has been a great one for a long time!