Okay, this is super cool. In the past I’ve discussed the value of reading a screenplay while watching the movie — you can see how the pages get translated onto the screen, see what they cut out from the script (or added), and so on.

Well, last week I received an email from Zeke Snyder:

Hello. I’m a big fan of your blog. I made a few videos inspired by your read a script a day posts.

Zeke included this link. I checked it out and was blown away. What Zeke had done was take a scene from Pedro Almodovar’s movie Talk to Her and insert into the visual frame the actual related screenplay:

As it turns out, Zeke has done three other Script to Scene excerpts:

Body Heat

Hud



The Year of Living Dangerously

I got in touch with Zeke to ask what inspired him to do this:

Why do I make them? I’m interested in the subtle changes that take place in the multiple drafts of screenwriting and how that changes even more from Page to Screen – and how sometimes it doesn’t change at all. For example: I read the Paul Schrader draft of Rolling Thunder and liked it very much, more than the version that they filmed rewritten by Heywood Gould. Or how in the script of Hud he kisses her before she gets on the bus – that kiss would have changed everything.

Zeke, who is an assistant to a TV-writing team working with the Disney Channel, wrote that he plans to do about “one a week,” so why not do like I did: subscribe to his YouTube channel? An easy way to experience the connection from script to scene.