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Photoplays and archetypes

Episode - 143

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May 13, 2014 Broadway, Follow Up, How-To, Screenwriting Software, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

In a wide-ranging episode, Craig and John look at a 1912 screenwriting book, Levinson’s beef with the WGA, and the Periodic Table of Storytelling.

We also answer listener questions about keeping secrets from readers, firing managers, and what happens to a Broadway show after Broadway. Plus, more follow-up on old One Cool Things.

There are still (maybe?) tickets for the live show on the 15th. See the links for details.

Links:

  • Voting for the Live Three Page Challenge is open until May 14 at noon
  • Get your tickets now for the Scriptnotes Summer Superhero Spectacular
  • John’s blog post on which apps screenwriters are using
  • Scriptnotes, Episode 141: Uncomfortable Ambiguity, or Nobody Wants Me at their Orgy
  • Matt Selman on Wikipedia
  • The Simpsons, Episode 492: The Book Job, on Wikipedia and Amazon Instant Video
  • The Simpsons, Episode 266: The Trilogy of Error on Wikipedia
  • John’s blog post on How to Write a Photoplay and the book on archive.org
  • Deadline on Barry Levinson leaving the WGA
  • The Periodic Table of Storytelling
  • Seattle’s Experience Music Project Museum, and John’s photo of the Archetypes of Fantasy chart
  • Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Collected Works, and his and Bill Moyers’ video series, The Power of Myth
  • Bulfinch’s Mythology
  • Memos to Hollywood from The New York Times
  • Big Fish’s upcoming shows
  • Vote now (for Big Fish!) for the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards
  • All our One Cool Things
  • WorkEZ Executive Laptop Stand and on Amazon
  • Sometimes You Die for iOS
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Sam Worseldine (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 5-16-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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