Hello, hello! I am hoping to get some guidance on how to better write Action. Can anybody recommend books, or specific screen plays to read? Or maybe techniques you apply to your work? Thank you, thank you!
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Secrets of Action Screenwriting by William Martell
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Practice, write more scripts, read other's scripts, study all facets of story development and screenwriting. Your own comfortable style will emerge. Avoid copying other's style but recognize each's strengths & weaknesses. My very tight staccato style works for me - but it's not for everyone.
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Books, not so much.
Hell or High Water - opening scene is great. A bank robbery.
I read the opening scene to Saving Private Ryan. :)
Shane Black redefined the modern screenplay with, Lethal Weapon. He was 21/22-years old at the time. Look at his pages, the way he line spaces, breaks short action sentences. I think he used a typewriter/word processor in the 1980s. Plot was way ahead of its time. Introduced post-Vietnam vet characters, showed a "modern Beretta" auto handgun, and Mixed Marital Arts fighting.
Die Hard is a very well crafted script and Dan has a great point about Lethal Weapon. In terms of action sequences within your screenplay, also read the finale of Back to the Future, as it keeps a great pace while being informative, tense and shows how keeping your style can enhance this.