The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet!

The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet is one of the greatest tools I’ve come across.

It breaks down the three-act structure into bite-size, manageable sections, each with a specific goal for your overall story.

It’s a great resource!

Below is an explanation of each beat.

THE BLAKE SNYDER BEAT SHEET

Opening Image – A visual that represents the struggle & tone of the story. A snapshot of the main character’s problem, before the adventure begins.

Set-up – Expand on the “before” snapshot. Present the main character’s world as it is, and what is missing in their life.

Theme Stated (happens during the Set-up) – What your story is about; the message, the truth. Usually, it is spoken to the main character or in their presence, but they don’t understand the truth…not until they have some personal experience and context to support it.

Catalyst – The moment where life as it is changes. It is the telegram, the act of catching your loved-one cheating, allowing a monster onboard the ship, meeting the true love of your life, etc. The “before” world is no more, change is underway.

Debate – But change is scary and for a moment, or a brief number of moments, the main character doubts the journey they must take. Can I face this challenge? Do I have what it takes? Should I go at all? It is the last chance for the hero to chicken out.

Break Into Two (Choosing Act Two) – The main character makes a choice and the journey begins. We leave the “Thesis” world and enter the upside-down, opposite world of Act Two.

B Story – This is when there’s a discussion about the Theme – the nugget of truth. Usually, this discussion is between the main character and the love interest. So, the B Story is usually called the “love story”.

The Promise of the Premise – This is when Craig Thompson’s relationship with Raina blooms, when Indiana Jones tries to beat the Nazis to the Lost Ark, when the detective finds the most clues and dodges the most bullets. This is when the main character explores the new world and the audience is entertained by the premise they have been promised.

Midpoint – Dependent upon the story, this moment is when everything is “great” or everything is “awful”. The main character either gets everything they think they want (“great”) or doesn’t get what they think they want at all (“awful”). But not everything we think we want is what we actually need in the end.

Bad Guys Close In – Doubt, jealousy, fear, foes both physical and emotional regroup to defeat the main character’s goal, and the main character’s “great”/“awful” situation disintegrates.

All is Lost – The opposite moment from the Midpoint: “awful”/“great”. The moment that the main character realizes they’ve lost everything they gained, or everything they now have has no meaning. The initial goal now looks even more impossible than before. And here, something or someone dies. It can be physical or emotional, but the death of something old makes way for something new to be born.

Dark Night of the Soul – The main character hits bottom, and wallows in hopelessness. The Why hast thou forsaken me, Lord? moment. Mourning the loss of what has “died” – the dream, the goal, the mentor character, the love of your life, etc. But, you must fall completely before you can pick yourself back up and try again.

Break Into Three (Choosing Act Three) – Thanks to a fresh idea, new inspiration, or last-minute Thematic advice from the B Story (usually the love interest), the main character chooses to try again.

Finale – This time around, the main character incorporates the Theme – the nugget of truth that now makes sense to them – into their fight for the goal because they have experience from the A Story and context from the B Story. Act Three is about Synthesis!

Final Image – opposite of Opening Image, proving, visually, that a change has occurred within the character.

THE END

Source: Tim Stout: https://timstout.wordpress.com/story-structure/blake-snyders-beat-sheet/

Influenced by the book: Save The Cat! The Last Book On Screenwriting That You'll Ever Need.

It can be correlated with another book influenced by the Blake Snyder series: Save The Cat! Writes a Novel, The Last Book on Novel Writing you'll ever Need.
(it applies BS beat sheet on a novel level, including the initial analysis of the first book)

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The Cards of Vladimir Propp in Fairytales!

The cards of Vladimir Propp was the analysis Propp used after studying several Russian fairytales to describe their structure and in some sense their model and archetypal nature, elements that could be found many times. Although it's a theory and not a canon or an unbreakable pattern, it's very powerful in describing the inner voice of the writer.

A characteristic side of the ingenuity of Leonardo Da Vinci, that was being excellently brought to light by an article of the magazine Sientse (Italian Version of Scientific American) is constituted  at his ability to regard for the first time in history every machine not as a unique organism, an unrepeated prototype but as a set of simpler machines.
 
Leonardo analyzed machines in elements, in functions. Thus, he accomplished to study independently, for example, the function of friction and this study led him to design ball bearings spherical and conic, even cylinders with the form of truncated cone, that were being constructed at least in our days for the function of gyroscope, that are necessary for the aviating navigation.
 
With similar studies Leonardo would manage to be entertained as well. It was discovered recently his plan for a funny devising of him: an “amortisseur to brake the fall of a man from above”. It shows a falling man, we don’t know where from, the fall of which brakes a system of wedges that are being connected between them and at the final point of fall, from a woolen ball, the resistance of which at hitting is being controlled and measured from a last wedge. It is probable that we should attribute to Leonardo the invention of “useless machines” that were being constructed for play, to follow a daydreaming, designed with a smile, that were instantly being confronted and rose against the utilitarian canon of technical-scientific progress.
 
Something similar with the Leonardian deconstruction of machines at its functions was actualized, as far as folkloric fairytales are concerned, the Soviet ethnologist Vladimir Propp at his work «Morphology of the tale» and at his study «Transformation at the fairytales of magic».
 
Propp became rightly famous for his book «The historical roots of the wonder tale», at which he exposes with a charming way and, at least from the poetic angle, persuasive, the theory according to which the most ancient core of fairytales originates from the initiation rituals that were being used at the primitive societies.
 
This that fairytales tell – or at the end of transfiguration, hide – would once happen: Reaching a definite age, children would be absent from family and were led into the forest (like in Hop-o’-my-Thumb, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White)… where the wizards of the tribe, dressed in a scaring way, with the face covered by horrible masks (that bring us to mind witches and wizards)… would force them in tough tests and often deadly (all the protagonists of fairytales meet them on their way)… children would listen the storytelling of the tribal myths and were thus ready to bring weapons (the magical presents that supernatural donors at fairytales share to the protagonists that are endangered)… and, finally, would come back at their home often with another name (and the protagonists of fairytales sometimes return incognito)… and finally mature get married (like in fairytales, that nine out of ten times finish with a wedding celebration)…
 
At the structure of a fairytale this of a ritual is repeated. By this observation Vladimir Propp (and not only him) came out with the theory, according to which the fairytale began to live as we know it, since the ancient ritual declined, leaving behind it only narration. Narrators, throughout centuries, would betray more and more the memory of the ritual and would serve the autonomous demands of the fairytale, that with the word of mouth transfigurated, accumulated deviations, followed the nations (Indo-European) at their migrations, absorbed the results of historical and social changes. Thus, the speakers, at the duration of a few centuries, transform a language until they give life to a new language: How many centuries passed since the Latin of roman decline until the Romance languages?

Fairytales, anyway, must be born from the fall of the sacred world to the folkloric: like from the fall reached the children world, having become toys, objects that in previous seasons were ritual and cultural, for example dolls, the spinning top. Doesn’t it exist thus in the roots of theater a same process from the sacred to the desecrated?
 
Around the primitive magical core, fairytales collected other myths that were being deprived of their sacred values, adventurous narrations, legends, anecdotes, next to the wizarding protagonists set up the protagonists of the agricultural world (for example the sly and the silly). There was created a dense and complex magma, a skein of one hundred colors, of which though – Propp says – the primitive thread is what we described.
 
A theory is of equal value with another and maybe none is at the position to give us a complete explanation about fairytales. This of Propp has a special charm because it establishes a deep bond – someone will say of the “collective unconscious” – between the prehistorical child that lived the initiation rituals and at the historical child that lives exactly with the fairytale his first initiation into the world of human. This identification between the young spectator and the Hop-o’-my-Thumb of fairytales that his mother narrates to him, doesn’t only have a psychological excuse, it has a deeper one, where its roots are being found at the darkness of blood.
 
By analyzing the structure of folkloric fairytale – with special caution at the Russian folkloric fairytales (which, moreover, belong widely to the same Indo-European heritage, together with German and Italian)-, Propp managed to state three principles: 1) “the stable elements, permanent in fairytales, are the functions of the protagonists, independent from the executor and the way of executing” 2) “the number of functions that appear in fairytales of magic is limited” 3) “the succession of functions is always the same”.
 
At Propp’s system the functions are thirty-one and are enough, with the variations and their internal structures, to describe the form of fairytales:

1.ABSENTATION
2.INTERDICTION
3.VIOLATION of INTERDICTION
4.RECONNAISSANCE
5.DELIVERY (TREACHERY)
6.TRICKERY
7.COMPLICITY
8.VILLAINY or LACKING
9.MEDIATION
10.BEGINNING COUNTERACTION
11.DEPARTURE
12.FIRST FUNCTION OF THE DONOR
13.HERO'S REACTION
14.RECEIPT OF A MAGICAL AGENT
15.GUIDANCE
16.STRUGGLE
17.BRANDING
18.VICTORY
19.LIQUIDATION
20.RETURN
21.PURSUIT
22.RESCUE
23.UNRECOGNIZED ARRIVAL
24.UNFOUNDED CLAIMS
25.DIFFICULT TASK
26.SOLUTION
27.RECOGNITION
28.EXPOSURE
29.TRANSFIGURATION
30.PUNISHMENT
31.WEDDING
 
Of course, not in all fairytales all functions exist: at the obligatory succession we have jumps, unifications, syntheses, which do not contradict the general line. A fairytale can start from the first, the seventh or the twelfth function, but – if it’s old enough – it’s difficult to make jumps backwards, to reacquire the passages it lost.
 
The function of absentation, which Propp places at the first position, can be fulfilled by one hero that is taken away from home for whatever reason, a prince that starts for war, a father who dies, a parent that goes to work (telling children – here’s the forbiddance (interdiction) – do not open the door to anyone or do not touch anything), a trader that travels for jobs etc. Every “function” can contain its opposite: “interdiction” can be presented through a “positive” order.
 
But we won’t go further with our observations about Propp’s functions, but only to suggest to whoever has the appetite to exercise, by comparing their succession with the plot of any movie with the accomplishments of 007 agent: he will be surprised by finding a big number, almost at the appropriate order, so live and stubbornly present is the structure of fairytale in our education. Many adventure books have the same trace.
 
For us, “functions” interest us because we can use them for the construction of infinite stories, like with twelve notes (ignoring quadrants and remaining always closed at the limited sound system of West before electronic music) we can synthesize infinite melodies.
 
At Reggio Emilia, for us to test the productivity of “functions”, we decreased them motu proprio in twenty, by leaving some and substituting others with the indication of equal in number “themes” of fairytales. Two painters, friends, designed twenty game “cards”, each one noting a word (the generalized title of function) and with a fit symbolic picture or caricature in terms of all the above functions.

Next there was a team that worked to create a story, by using in order the twenty “cards of Propp”. Being entertained a lot, I owe to say and with remarkable parody results.
 
I saw that children manage easily to make a fairytale, by following the trace from the cards, because each word of the order (“function” or “theme of fairytale”) is presented loaded with mythic meanings and is disposed at an endless game of variations. I remember an original interpretation of interdiction: A father leaves the house, by forbidding his children to throw pots with flowers at the heads of passengers from the balcony… And between the “tough tests” there was not absent the obligation to go to the cemetery at midnight: the maximum of horror and courage until a specific age.
 
But children like to mix the cards, by improvising rules: pick up three by luck and creating a full story, begin from the last card of the order, share the bunch with two teams and synthesizing two stories competing each other. Often a card is enough to inspire them a fairytale. That with the magical presents reached a pupil to improvise a story of a pen that would write school assignments on its own.
 
Anyone can create by himself a bunch with “cards of Propp”, with twenty, or thirty or fifty, as many as he wants: as long as he writes each card the title of “function” or the “theme”, illustration is not necessary.
 
The game can only remind by accident the structure of a puzzle or a brain teaser, at which exist twenty or one thousand pieces of a plan mixed, with the duty to resynthesize, as in mosaic, the entire plan. Cards of Vladimir Propp allow oppositely, as we said, the construction of an infinite number of plans, because each piece doesn’t have only one interpretation, but it’s open to many meanings. … …

Source: Book Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari

Aspects of Creative Thought & Expression!

A photo of Pashalia Travlou

By reading the book of remarkable Greek writer Pashalia Travlou (Lovers of Writing) I will exploit several excerpts from the book so for us to discuss today how the distinction between the writer and the litterateur can make a creator lovely, open and familiar to diversity that he will probably discover through his writings. Depending on his experiences the writer can explore his subconscious as well as his inner soul, by giving meaning as well as volume to his questions as well as his thoughts. Literature in reality is a notion narrower than texts, it concerns literacy in contrast to the second that has to do with the set of written scripts of a community. Both literature and texts have their origin to the subconscious and only from there can a litterateur or/and writer quest his authentic voice and the conscious expression that constitutes a very small percentage of human thought, inventions, expressions. I learnt that passing through the gates of our subconscious we get the right and access to an inspiration and expressiveness that owe to flow abundantly through the writing of the writer creator. But let’s get to the point of today’s discussion.

Writer Pashalia Travlou talks at her book about the issues that have to do with the psychodynamics of the writer, meaning she dares to talk about psychodynamics at the moment where the writer by confronting his words and his ideas on paper, confronts the huge according to the writer issue of whether he returns back to them to check them. Very often though as she says, scripts have to stay for a while and thoughts become mature before the writer confronts them again.

Depending on:
•    his talent
•    his self confidence
•    his trends for questioning
•    the degree at which becomes sensible his expressive ability
•    the importance he gives at literary and or expressive wholeness
•    traumatic experiences
•    his same mental speed and its relation with expression and the linguistic code of the text

is determined to a great extent the degree at which the writer censors and reprocesses his writings by making logical, points that perhaps don’t ease communication. More specifically the need for expressive integrity makes it obligatory every kind of post-evolution of older scripts. As well as his focusing some times at words and some times at ideas for a writer that sometimes expresses himself through streams of ideas, is that separate writers in two categories. Those who express themselves mainly impulsively and through ideas being less biased at the beginning on literary and expressive integrity and those the having indeed the power through diverse linguistic codes to combine speed and integrity at the same time. I will take advantage of an excerpt of the book.

"Literature and in a broader term, art, as it is an after effect of inner needs that originate from the subconscious and not the consciousness of writer-litterateur, awakens powers that the creator doesn’t realize from the outset he has." This is the key point of today’s discussion! It is acceptable that no matter how much we insist on multiple processing and refining of scripts, a few mental, of soul and emotional discoveries are stormed that don’t follow logic. No one can come out of darkness and be brought to light without paying the price. Very often for a writer that he is called to confront his dark side, it is being said by the writer that the faith at an eternal roasting on fire can be proved mistaken.

It must not worry the creator his capricious writing at the first stages as long as he remains hard working and sportsmanlike. Though especially in creative writing no one can learn let alone practice out of non being, without primal material in other words. Personally, I believe that for creators to awaken powers that the creators can’t realize from the outset they have, cuts down creative expression and the subconscious to the rational sight and often understanding of the world that surrounds us, at an appropriate relation of inner – outer world. Thus, if literature and writing become the cause for the coveted transcendence of objective being of a work towards the reality of civilization, this is an issue depending on the creator himself. Certainly though, the synthesis of multiple emotional, of soul, mental, aesthetic as well as conscious factors is a reality that concerns both the creative process as well as every thoughtful man. The quest though in every occasion is the utilization of the ideas and principles of man towards a better tomorrow. Have a great weekend!

The Bee Season Book Movie Storytelling, Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche!

Bee Season of Myla Goldberg is “her first novel at which the puritan, little urban family life, becomes a fertile ground for cosmic questions”, criticism by Los Angeles Times. “The quest for the perfect world, God’s vision, shines through every page of this magnificent book, which is flooded so much by empathy and mercy for its full of flaws characters that are being found in search… Myla Goldberg is a writer with rare talent.” The Times – Picayune. Two reviews about Bee Season that go hand in hand with the quote of Abraham Abulafia, the most basic representative of Jewish mysticism and Ecstatic Kabbalah, who said that “the world of letters is the true world of beatitude.” (1240-1292) Nevertheless, the book at its progress gets dramatic evolution which gives birth to questions about its basic message. Bee Season was being taken to the cinema with Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. But let’s start from the beginning.
Saul Nauman is a precentor at the Jewish Synagogue and is married with Miriam, who seems absorbed by her career as a lawyer. They have 2 children, Aaron and Elaiza. Elaiza goes to primary school and her brother is a few years older than her. Even though she is a bad, at start, pupil, soon she discovers her talent in dictation and words. A dictation competition entitled Spelling Bee will become the cause so that Elaiza discovers her true self. Even though this competition seems it will verify once again her mediocrity, Elaiza makes the surprise, she wins. She wins indeed both at the beginning but also the regional, geographically, competition which opens to her the door for the National dictation competition. This unexpected success becomes the cause so that her family fall into a vortex of changes. Initially, Miriam and Saul seem aloof. Miriam, not even one time has she taken Saul at her office, to feel familiar with her job, Saul though seems absorbed by the leather-bound books, Tora, Abulafia as well as his role as a precentor. We witness scenes at which the family participates at synagogues. Aaron initially shows interest in guitar lessons, with the help of his father, but soon Elaiza’s success will substitute Aaron to the eyes of Saul. Aaron initially wants to have his father’s position. He wants to become a rabbi.
Saul being inspired by Tora, Jewish mysticism, Tikum Olam or in other words, world’s repair, Abulafia, he decides to start training Elaiza for the final. He tells her indeed, later that it doesn’t matter whether she wins at the first time, for simply there is a second time. Saul seems absorbed by words and letters. He believes it though so deeply, that when Aaron is being beaten by his classmates, he brings him at his office to seduce him with books. You’re better than them Aaron, he tells to him. You have something they don’t and they know it very well, this drives them crazy. With a potential, that is later proved not everyone can handle Saul wants to share his ideas with his son by telling him: What we do in here cancels doubly what others do out there.
Saul buys a dictionary and starts devoting endless hours with Elaiza in his office. Contacting Miriam is rare, they simply see each other at night and little by little their sexual desire starts decreasing. Nevertheless, Elaiza motivated by Saul starts to deepen more at words and develops dimensions that do not depend from the dictation competition. It’s not necessary to her, as she thinks. Even though the first time fails at the final, together with her father they are determined to get closer to God’s vision. And what does this mean? Saul decides to revel everything to Elaiza about Abulafia and his way of thinking.

In 1280 a Jewish mystic named Abraham Abulafia, writes a book entitled Haia Olam a Ba which means “The Life of Future World”. In it it’s clarified that the transcendence of the sensible world is language itself. Creation takes place through words, a series of ‘God said’. The foundation of language is letters. Abulafia would believe that by focusing at letters, the mind could be freed by its bonds and communicate with an existence greater than itself, this that himself named sifa, input. Elaiza starts to learn about all the possible mathematical permutations of letters of words by having the exclusivity of her father’s time. Aaron though that he once wanted to be like Saul starts to read books about Eastern religions by exploring other dogmas and criticizing Christianity and the onto Earth test related with Heaven or Hell, liken it with an electronic game. Proceed at the next level… Aaron starts to explore other religions by shaping complete negativity about his father.
Even though the longing of one young child, Elaiza, for praises and acceptance seems to become the center that monopolizes the pages of the book, soon evolution is dramatic. Elaiza even though she has the perfect motive so that she can get her school report with grade Excellent, love school and progress at future without needing a competition, Miriam soon starts to show her bizarre side, together with Aaron that seems to be converted to Krisna, the other name of God. The basic elements of Miriam at which her family was based are proved to be lies. Miriam has stopped practicing law for ten years and Saul’s name has been added to an account of her parents, with which she was able to pay the bills which Saul thought she was paying with her work. Miriam also robs houses the objects of which are placed at a special apartment that she rents and names kaleidoscope.
After being arrested by the police, being charged with accusations and being locked at a psychiatric clinic, Saul is being informed speechless. The reader though asks: Not even in 10 years has there been the slightest of checking? A meal with colleagues, professional conversations or some visits at the office? Saul was being devoted at his books, the synagogue and God. He didn’t want not even for one moment to check about Miriam and his house and this led to the result of him being deceived. Even though this is his own responsibility, the book brings us in front of a family at which everyone, unfortunately follows his/her own path, though we can compare each one’s trajectories.
Both Miriam and Aaron function at a wrong denominator, contrary to Elaiza that through family warmth and studying she evolves rapidly. Not even the fantasies she has are left out about possible success! There will be interviews in television, arbitrations so that she can talk, a trip at the White House… She will be bombarded with questions from all over the world, she will be called to solve conflicts, invent therapies, battle hunger as well as if the President asks her to create a weapon against the Russians she will refuse. She will use her forces only for good. Aaron on the other hand thanks to his forthcoming adulthood as well as his interest about Krisna comes to a complete rupture with his father. Saul dares to mention at his children, one day before the final the real identity of Miriam and he receives a slap by his son. Saul the next day fearing his family will be destroyed completely says to his children that he said things he didn’t mean so that Elaiza can proceed with the dictation competition.
Even though she loses the competition by spelling the word handicraft with an e at the end, finally it is proved that she and Saul by wearing really big hats with the motive of accomplishing their goals, they have got the stuff to stand out even though everything around them seems to fall apart. Even though the world of letters of Abulafia doesn’t start and end at the perception, the temperament and the character of Saul as there is deception and lies in our world, finally yes, the world of letters is the true world of beatitude!

Working on my short story...!

Dear friends, I am happy to announce I have completed a short story (the kind of word) at the category of fairytale fantasy (the genre of the script) which I am thinking of publishing as a pocket book, in terms of its dimensions, at the global internet, as an ebook and print on demand!
It has to do with a fairytale fantasy which according to the book Grammar of Fantasy of highly distinguished writer, teacher and journalist Gianni Rodari (he was awarded the Andersen Prize in 1970, the greatest distinction globally for a writer of children literature) follows the technique of salad of fairytales.
Example, my heroine meets Pinocchio and learns precious allegories as well as consequences about truth and lies (Pinocchio's nose grows bigger when he tells lies). Adventures are mingled and the 2 stories occur at the diagonal as they both act at the same point, the resultant. Even though my own work is original!
Stay tuned for the book being for children and grown-ups!

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P.J. Hogan's Peter Pan Stays True To Its Literary Roots!

The 2003 adaptation brings J.M. Barrie’s famous story into current-day while still honoring its source material.

Oh, the cleverness of Peter Pan. Even those who have not read J.M. Barrie’s classic have a basic understanding of its themes thanks to the very many iterations it’s inspired: Barrie himself transformed his own original version, a play, into a novel. Walt Disney took a pass at a retelling in the 1953 animated film version, and through the years we’ve seen adaptations, prequels and sequels, from Steven Spielberg’s iconic Hook starring Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams, to the latest (less memorable) revamp, Pan, by Joe Wright. Many of these films offer their own takes on the story of the boy who refused to grow up, oftentimes sacrificing the incredible language, impishness and poignancy of Barrie’s source material. 2003’s Peter Pan, written and directed by P.J. Hogan (director of My Best Friend’s Wedding), however, brings back what was lost.

Hogan wisely allows his updates roll with the times, keeping it fresh, while still maintaining the essence of the original work. Wendy Darling is our real hero: We follow her from London to Neverland and back, watching as she takes captivates with her storytelling, sword fights with the best of them, and ultimately realizes when it’s time to return home. She is a strong female character in a world full of self-assured men, and holds her own in every scene. One of the film’s few misses might be that it wasn’t called Peter and Wendy, the alternate title of the play.

Stocked with kid-friendly elements, Hogan’s Peter Pan may be a film for children, but is one of the few that retains the true darkness of Barrie’s version. Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood), a young girl who loves to tell stories and play pretend with her brothers, is faced with the fact that she is on the verge of growing up. Try as she might, she cannot conceal the maturity that comes through on her face in the form of a secret “kiss” — a dimple on her chin, similar to the one her mother (played by the luminescent Olivia Williams) bears. Faced with the prospect of leaving her imaginary world behind, Wendy flies off with a strange boy to Neverland, but her adoration of Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) slowly dims as she learns his ability to stay youthful comes at a cost — his emotions are over-simplified, and he cannot truly love her the way she wants. Peter Pan has always been about the realization that we cannot — nor should we — cling to our childhood. The greatest adventures come from living life to the fullest.

Heavy stuff for a “kids’ movie,” but this was the dilemma Barrie asked his audiences to consider, and Hogan’s film, visually reminiscent of a young person’s Moulin Rouge, does the same. The movie does not sacrifice imagination for depth, nor does it go so far into action-adventure that it is without emotional impact.The scene where Peter screams into the void about believing in fairies to desperately revive a dying Tinkerbell is full of purity and emotion, and will have you reciting the words with him as the music swells.

Hogan maintains accuracy to scenes and dialogue in a manner other adaptations do not, from building a house around a fallen Wendy, to the reminder of how children emulate adult things without understanding their full definition (the rowdy Lost Boys are thrilled to have a “Mother” when Wendy arrives so that someone can tell them stories and make them take their medicine, for instance.)

Another favorite choice: Allowing the talented Jason Isaacs (of the Harry Potter series) to serve as both George Darling and James Hook, just as it was written in the play. These thoughtful details link the movie to the Barrie’s work, and despite an adjusted ending, Hogan’s Peter Pan is the most touching and accurate film version of the play.

“To die would be an awfully big adventure,” says Peter. Deep words for a child, but wholly appropriate in a film that believe a kids’ movie can possess a literary soul, true emotion and thoughtful questions. 

Source: https://www.hbo.com/movies/staff-picks/peter-pan-2003-live-action

My New Release Title in Amazon Universal Distribution!

Dear friends, there's been a continuum with Amazon in terms of the coming together of notions of art, enterprise and different cultures of people and limits of where the one stops and where the other starts are quite blurred...! Searching the platform of my ebook distribution partner, I realized there are extra markets in Amazon my book has been released, including options from Lightning Source (UK) in terms of more print on demand markets. What I haven't already talked to you about is the market of United Arab Emirates and the market of Singapore! Nevertheless distribution is universal so far including both the ebook and print on demand at landing pages! Today I have the feeling of what it is to distribute globally, truly! So if you want to get to know the story and the plot that started it all you can follow the links down below:
Amazon Singapore link: http://bit.ly/32ZVgQk
Amazon United Arab Emirates link: https://amzn.to/2MZRh0H
Amazon Spain link: https://amzn.to/2PCkqAq
Amazon Japan link: https://amzn.to/2JztWRg
Amazon Mexico link: https://amzn.to/2JAIGzd
Amazon Netherlands link: https://amzn.to/333wOxq
Amazon France link: https://amzn.to/36n2KPB
Amazon Italy link: https://amzn.to/2Wp0ouV
Amazon USA link: https://amzn.to/2kC2oS3
Amazon UK link: https://amzn.to/2mOvLS1
Amazon Canada link: https://amzn.to/2mOvVsB
Amazon Australia link: https://amzn.to/2mMCr3a
Amazon India link: https://amzn.to/2mDKDCW
Amazon Brazil link: https://amzn.to/35EYri0

Full Launch in Diverse Amazon Marketplaces!

Dear readers, I am happy to announce that through PublishDrive and Lightning Source UK we managed to upload The Words of Emily Logan both as an ebook and paperback at all Amazon marketplaces. Links displayed down below now display both versions of my screenplay. But selling a product through various markets only starts to evolve right now. Even though I have declared creative presence at social networks, marketplaces require channel specific moves. Stay tuned for featured book, channel specific promotions, book reviews and several other initiatives! Below are the links you need to view my work:
Amazon Global link: https://amzn.to/2kC2oS3
Amazon UK link: https://amzn.to/2mOvLS1
Amazon Canada link: https://amzn.to/2mOvVsB
Amazon Australia link: https://amzn.to/2mMCr3a
Amazon India link: https://amzn.to/2mDKDCW
Amazon Brazil link:  https://amzn.to/35EYri0

Walmart Displays My Romantic Drama Screenplay!

Walmart is a Global Retailer Corporation that owns a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores and grocery stores headquartered in Arkansas. Originating from Publisher Kobo, they decided to display The Words of Emily Logan through its ebook version!
Books, Arts & Entertainment, Performing Arts, Screenplays, this is how they decided to structure their categorization tree for my book. Remember that ebooks, exactly as if you buy something from Amazon, are being read through an App. For Amazon it's the Kindle Reader.
Digital delivery by Walmart is being actualized through Walmart ebooks App or Kobo eReader.
Here's the link to Walmart: http://bit.ly/33pUMm6

The Words of Emily Logan as Paperback and eBook at Barnes & Noble!

At Barnes & Noble the Paperback Version and the NOOK Book Version (ebook) of The Words of Emily Logan are already available!
You can get a Free NOOK Book sample, Buy it as a Gift or Explore the NOOK through hyperlink choices at the Book Information page.
Barnes & Noble is quite a big retailer that sells books, eBooks, magazines, toys & games, music, DVD and Blu-ray, and related products and services.

One of the largest Internet Bookstores it can be your market choice (for both the paperback or the ebook) for my Dramatic Writing Book if you're keen on it!
Here's the link to Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2mwMUPB

Get my Screenplay on Apple Books!

Hello friends, here's some info related to The Words of Emily Logan: Apple Books also already distributes my ebook, accessible by all devices, but you can only check the iBook store from an Apple device, iPhone, iPad, Mac. It's the ebook version and the link below is a preview for everyone. As a romantic drama book it's being categorized as Arts & Entertainment and of course, ebooks are cheaper than paperbacks if you're really interested in getting it! Below is the market link:
Here's the link to Apple Books: https://apple.co/2mr75hO

Goodreads Network Displays The Words of Emily Logan!

"The right book in the right hands at the right time can change the world."

This is how Goodreads introduces the network experience in.

Who They Are

Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads launched in January 2007.

A Few Things You Can Do On Goodreads

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Goodreads exhibits The Words of Emily Logan! A romantic drama book suitable for people who want to mingle with a love story of hope and ambition in the midst of tumultuous days in their lives written in a movie format! A story about artists, below is the market link:
http://bit.ly/2OvGLPW

Scribd & The Words of Emily Logan!

That's the Scribd market, displaying The Words of Emily Logan! Firstly lets start with a Quote written in their website:

"Curiosity is available to everyone." Elizabeth Gilbert

What they do

Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks, and journalism to help readers become their best selves.

Their mission

To change the way the world reads.

Still curious about my book? You can get the market link here: http://bit.ly/30MSJXV

The Words of Emily Logan at 24 Symbols!

24 Symbols International Bookstore displays The Words of Emily Logan! Since books are being distributed to bookstores with specially chosen categories, (drama, screenplay in my case) each market uses different categorization for each book submitted. The one that is closest to what is presented. Since screenplays are different than novels and are closer to the structure of theatrical "plays", the book is being displayed at "The Arts" & "Poetry & Theatre" categories. This is being described down below the book! Here is the market link: http://bit.ly/2prBb6D

Hobbiton Movie Set Tours Website

Their Story: 

In 1998, Sir Peter Jackson’s team of location scouts were searching for the iconic rolling hills and lush green pastures of Hobbiton™. An aerial search led them to the Alexander farm, a stunning 1,250 acre sheep farm in the heart of the Waikato. They noted the area’s striking similarity to The Shire™, as described by JRR Tolkien, and quickly realised that the Hobbits™ had found a home.

In one particular part of the farm, a magnificent pine tree towered over a nearby lake, adjacent to a rising hill. Bag End now sits atop that hill, overlooking the Party Tree, as that pine would later be known. The surrounding areas were untouched; no power lines, no buildings and no roads in sight. This meant that Sir Peter Jackson could leave the 20th century behind, and fully submerge himself in the fantasy world of Middle-earth™.

In March 1999 the crew began the nine month quest to bring the ideas for Hobbiton to fruition; help was provided by the New Zealand Army, and soon 39 temporary Hobbit Holes™ were scattered across the 12 acre plot used for the set. Secrecy was key, and strict security measures were put in place by the production company throughout construction and filming. Filming commenced in December 1999, and it took around three months to get a wrap on The Shire.

After an initial attempt at demolition, 17 bare plywood facades remained. These shells would serve as the catalyst that propelled Hobbiton forward into the public eye, with guided tours commencing in 2002.

In 2009, Sir Peter Jackson returned to film The Hobbit trilogy, and he left behind the beautiful movie set you’ll see today; 44 permanently reconstructed Hobbit Holes, in the same fantastic detail seen in the movies. In 2012 The Green Dragon™ Inn was opened as the finale to the journey. Guests now finish their Hobbiton Movie Set experience with a refreshing beverage from the Hobbit™ Southfarthing™ Range. There’s an abundance of movie magic nestled inside the fully operational farm.

Source:  https://www.hobbitontours.com/en/