Today is Day 12 of the "14 Days of Screenplays, Version 3.0" challenge and the featured screenplay is for the movie Psycho (1960). You can download the script from myPDFscripts.com here.Background: Psycho was nominated for 4 Academy Awards and screenwriter Joseph Stefano received the WGA Award for Best Written American Drama. The movie currently has a 8.7 rating on IMDB.com and is ranked #22 among the site's top 250 most popular movies.
Here is an interview snippet with the movie's director Alfred Hitchcock from 1960, the year of Psycho's release, in which Hitchcock offers up one of his most famous observations about movies: "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
I want to give time for people to weigh in about the script, those who have read it for the challenge as well as anyone else who has read the script in the past. I'll update this post with my thoughts on the script later.
What did you think of Psycho?
For links to all 14 scripts in the challenge, go here.
And remember: We'll be reading 1 script per day and discussing them through November 22. I'll be posting something everyday at 4PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time / 1PM PST for your comments.
The script for Day 13 of the challenge is Crash (2004), available at myPDFscripts.com.
UPDATE: As E.C. correctly points out, the script currently available for download from myPDFscripts.com is messed up. I've contacted them about uploading a better draft, but please email me for a clean copy:
scottdistillery@gmail.com
Thanks, E.C. for the heads up.
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2 comments:
Scott, the "Psycho" script off the link you provided is A MESS!
Someone obviously tampered with this script as in spots parts of shot heading are formatted as characters speaking with lines of description as dialog: page 17, 34, 50, 51, 83, 88, 105.
On pages 115 - 116, A series of shot heading are given with no subject except the time of day. And what is an S.L.S shot anyway? L.S. - Long shot abreviation, C.U. - Closeup, but S.L.S. what's that?
This script does exceedly poor job of accounting for time too. There are back-to-back Montage scenes broken by a day that are all formatted with DISSOLVE TO: and short scenes. MONTAGE: the passage of a series of event over time. VERY BAD writing pages 67 - 71.
Anyway someone obviously tampered with this script. IT IS A MESS!
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
Sorry about the mess up with the script. Working to fix it and procure a scanned copy of the original script.
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