5AM RealTalk is a 5AM StoryTalk plog where I discuss the highs and lows of my life as a screenwriter/novelist and human being.

On the itinerary today: 'Sinners', at last — Denis Villeneuve agrees with me — are scripts just blueprints, or can they be literature? — what artists and magicians have in common — the limits of the screenwriting form — what I’ve learned from Walter Hill, William Goldman, and Celine Song — but also, Terrence Malick, Christopher Nolan, J.C. Chandor, and Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan — writing pilot scripts — TV creator and showrunner Emma Frost gives me a panic attack — the role of Nick Cave’s lyrics and David Bowie’s ‘Diamond Dogs’ in my screenwriting evolution — everyone’s favorite poet-curmudgeon, Alan Moore — and cinema as visual poetry.

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LINKS

• 'Resource: Hundreds of Screenplays All in One Place' from 5AM StoryTalk: https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/resource-hundreds-of-screenplays?utm_source=publication-search
• 'Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' Script Blows Up All the Rules' from 5AM StoryTalk: https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/christopher-nolans-oppenheimer-script?utm_source=publication-search
• 'Denis Villeneuve, 'Dune', and the Problem with Dialogue Today' from 5AM StoryTalk: https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/denis-villeneuve-dune-and-the-problem?utm_source=publication-search

• Script: 'The Driver': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/the-driver-1978.pdf?v=1729115014
• Script: 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-1969.pdf?v=1729114880
• Script: 'Past Lives': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/past-lives-2023.pdf?v=1729114969
• Script: 'Taxi Driver': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/taxi-driver-1976.pdf?v=1729115004
• Script: 'The Tree of Life': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/the-tree-of-life-2011.pdf?v=1729115042
• Script: 'All Is Lost': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/all-is-lost-2013.pdf?v=1729114856
• Script: 'Oppenheimer': https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/oppenheimer-2023.pdf
• Script: 'Before Sunrise': https://indiegroundfilms.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/before-sunrise-numbered.pdf

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