Featured Friday: A dilly of a pickle
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week's Inneresting is all about the difference between when characters have a choice and when they're stuck in a dilemma. For our script collection this week, we wanted to round up a few strong examples of the theory in practice.
We're showcasing dilemmas like:
- Surviving on a sinking yacht in J.C. Chandor's All Is Lost
- Making sure your mom falls in love with your dad (and not you) in Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale's Back to the Future
- Finding a way back to Earth after a space shuttle disaster in Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón's Gravity
- Having an existential fight to the death between you and your literal future self in Rian Johnson's Looper
- Choosing between saving your friends and completing your Jedi training in Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett's Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Overcoming the death traps of a psychotic clown in Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!
Check out last week’s screenplay collection of Western scripts!
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