Mixed vegetables are great (and delicious), but a movie/show with different genres is better! My favorite genre mix is Horror Action. What’s your favorite genre mix to write?
And feel free to post a tip for writing a genre mix script.
Tip for writing a Horror Action script: don’t get so caught up in writing action that you forget the scares.
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I love anything with surrealism because it just works with everything. Surreal comedy, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, slice-of-life... you just can't go wrong with it.
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You're right, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh. I love writing and watching surreal movies and shows. What's your favorite surreal movie/show?
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Maurice Vaughan definitely everything I've watched of Satoshi Kon's (Millennium Actress is my favourite one), and Revolutionary Girl Utena of course, the movie Adolescence of Utena, especially (Kunihiko Ikuhara broke the scale with surrealism there). And of course in terms of novels I'm all over Haruki Murakami, who was my gateway into it. How about yours?
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I'll have to check those out, Banafsheh Esmailzadeh. My favorite is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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comedy Sci-fi
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Maurice Vaughan For me, broccoli represents the conflict in a script since I can’t stand it and don’t eat it at all.
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I love watching Comedy Sci-Fi, Neal Jamison. What's your favorite Comedy Sci-Fi movie or show?
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Haha You could make broccoli a villain in a script, Abram Christian. Maybe an Animation script.
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Maurice Vaughan broccoli is definitely the villain lol
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Happy Thanksgiving without broccoli, Abram Christian!
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I love writing a blend of action and sci-fi
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I love writing a blend of Action and Sci-Fi too, P. J Oken. What's one of your favorite Action Sci-Fi scenes you've written or one of your favorite Action Sci-Fi movies?
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Generally, I don’t mix genres — but I have one that blends sci-fi with fantasy: The Great Cosmic Sacrifice
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I like focusing on "high-octane psychological drama."
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Horror Thriller. Alongside any disturbing visual topics, there must be a mystery to solve. Psychological horror, I dig too but I’m no fan of repeated gore with little plot.
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Interesting topic! I’ll want to make sci-fi/dystopian musical movies, sci-fi/dystopian comedies, and sci-fi/dystopian quasi-biographical movies
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Are you finished The Great Cosmic Sacrifice or is it one of the projects you're working on, Meriem Bouziani?
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That sounds interesting, Ehsan Rahimpour. What's an example of a high-octane Psychological Drama?
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I write Horror Thriller scripts sometimes, Debbie Croysdale. Thanks for the tip! I’m not a fan of repeated gore with little plot either. Too much gore pulls me out of a story.
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Those are interesting genre mixes, Imola Orbán! I'd watch those movies, especially a Sci-Fi Dystopian Comedy!
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Not yet — all of them are still in the waiting list.
This is my problem: I had a year of idea explosion, yet I’m stuck in a slow writing process.
and also my mind keeps generating new worlds Maurice Vaughan
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Shutter Island (2010), Collateral (2004), Bourne Identity (2002) Maurice Vaughan
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Sometimes it's better to take a lot of time on a project, Meriem Bouziani. Something I do when I keep thinking of ideas is save them in a file to work on later, and sometimes I make a short outline for the idea to get it out of my head, then I make the outline longer later on when I'm ready to work on the project.
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Thanks, Ehsan Rahimpour. Shutter Island and Bourne Identity are incredible! I still need to see Collateral.
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Yes, exactly — that’s what I do as well.
I am focusing on The Silent PFC War, while also taking notes on every new idea that comes my way.
And I also develop titles for them.
Titles are the anchors I use to remember my ideas
I’ve noticed that ideas without titles are far more likely to be forgotten Maurice Vaughan
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Maurice, I've got a comedy-Western ("Kitten on the Keys") and an action-crime-comedy ("Got Any More Bullets, Sister?")...but I'm more likely to (and I like to) mix comedy with drama.
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I like the Comedy Western mix, Jim Boston. I haven't heard about a lot of them.
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Quite a few feature-length Western comedies came out of Hollywood in the 1957-74 period. (Two of the most famous ones were 1965's "Cat Ballou" and 1974's "Blazing Saddles.")
I guess what happened to shut Westerns of all kinds down were three things: A dip in popularity as the Twentieth Century headed for the sunset, spaces to film oaters in the Mountain and Pacific time zones dwindling, and...1977's "Star Wars" setting a new standard.
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It's a good problem to have, but my problem is Comedy - the awful temptation to put comedy gags into serious stories to amuse myself. I'm a natural gag writer so have to stop myself. Nothing ruins the high-tension moments in a thriller more than e.g. a fart gag - it is hilarious, but it's not supposed to be there. What I do to control it, is write the gags down separately. I just love writing comedy. -- Yes, I have a few, including a very recent TV thirty minuter called 'Ponzi's schemes' - which makes me fall about laughing.
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I think a comic relief character is fine in serious stories, suspenseful scenes, and Horror scripts, David Taylor. Maybe avoid writing too many comedy moments though, or maybe don't make the comic relief character over-the-top funny.
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Yeah. I do manage to get the balance right.