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Your job as Dialogue Director is to be on the lookout for a few especially important words or phrases in your reading, including dialogue and descriptions. Choose passages that catch your eye. Also, record words or phrases that are unfamiliar or don’t seem to make sense in the story.
Feb 23, 2018 · 10 Movie Directors Whose Films Have Great Dialogues. Posted on February 23, 2018 by German Torres Ascencio. Conversations are some of the most common scenes in films, and when done well they can be extremely powerful.
Studio-era directors and screenwriters developed distinctive dialogue styles. Especially in screwball comedies, such as Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), director Howard Hawks (1896–1977) would have his actors speak quickly and jump on each others' lines; his overlapping dialogue became a central element of his films ...
Dialogue Director. During the transition from silent movies to talkies, dialogue directors were indespensible in coaching performers about delivering lines for the camera. (Notably, some silent film stars were not able to make the switch from silent films to talkies because of poor speech habits or, weak or irritating voices.) The dialogue ...
- Ted Tally
- Andrew Kevin Walker
- Martin Scorsese & Nicholas Pileggi
- Eric Roth
- Jim Uhls
- Quentin Tarantino
- Steven Zaillian
- Reginald Rose
- Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
- Frank Darabont
Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs– considered the 22nd greatest movie of all time by IMDb – is one of the only movies to ever sweep the top five Oscar categories (and is currently the only horror film to win Best Picture). Ted Tally took home Best Adapted Screenplay for his adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name. In translating...
David Fincher’s psychological horror noir Se7entakes the number 20 spot on IMDb’s “Top 250” list. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt anchor the movie as the detectives chasing John Doe, but Andrew Kevin Walker’s script gave them the dialogue to bring the characters’ back-and-forth to life. The dialogue in Walker’s script has plenty of fun with the famili...
Martin Scorsese’s wildly entertaining crime epic Goodfellas is ranked as the 17th greatest movie by IMDb. Scorsese rarely writes his own movies, but since he planned to make Goodfellas as a feature-length trailer with rapid pacing that would hit the audience like a speeding bullet, he co-wrote the script with Nicholas Pileggi. Pileggi’s nonfiction ...
The number 12 spot on IMDb’s list of the greatest movies ever made belongs to Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump, a beloved blend of treacly, uplifting melodrama and cynical commentary on 20th-century American history. Eric Roth’s script – adapted from the novel by Winston Groom – earned him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Roth has since ...
IMDb lists David Fincher’s darkly comedic neo-noir epic Fight Club as the 11th greatest movie ever made. Jim Uhls adapted the film’s controversial script from the equally controversial novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Voiceover narration is often criticized as a lazy way to tell a story on-screen, but the unnamed narrator in Fight Clubis ...
After introducing audiences to his idiosyncratic dialogue style in Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino solidified his status as a master of dialogue with his sophomore directorial effort, Pulp Fiction, listed by IMDb as the eighth greatest movie ever made. RELATED: All Of Quentin Tarantino's Screenplays (Including The Ones He Didn't Direct), Ranked F...
IMDb ranks Steven Spielberg’s seminal Holocaust drama Schindler’s List as the sixth greatest movie ever made. Steven Zaillian adapted the screenplay from Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, using a flexible three-plus-hour runtime to both celebrate Oskar Schindler’s legacy and humanize him. Zaillian has written a bunch of acclaimed scripts over...
Set mostly in a single room as jurors argue over whether or not the accused is guilty, Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men – ranked by IMDb as the fifth greatest movie ever made – is a rare example of a movie that revolves entirely around dialogue. Adapted from Rose’s own play of the same name, Sidney Lumet’s classic courtroom dramaoffers a cinematic form...
Francis Ford Coppola’s script for Patton had made him one of Hollywood’s most sought-after screenwriters when he was hired to direct an adaptation of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. Coppola teamed up with Puzo to write the script and later reunited for the sequel. The Godfather and The Godfather Part IIare ranked second and third on IMDb’s “Top 250.” R...
Frank Darabont’s moving, deeply human prison epic The Shawshank Redemption takes the top spot on IMDb’s “Top 250” list. Adapted from a Stephen King short story, Darabont’s Shawshankscript offers a harrowing glimpse at life behind bars. Darabont focused the story on the blossoming friendship between newly imprisoned Andy and grizzled veteran inmate ...
Feb 13, 2024 · 1. Annie Hall. Woody Allen is a master of neurotic and eccentric banter. If you have characters that match those characteristics, Annie Hall is the first movie you should watch to get a sense of the rhythm that those types of characters utilize in their speech patterns and exchanges.
Feb 23, 2018 · 1. The Coen Brothers. The Coen brothers take a very classic approach to certain aspects of film form and one can see this in the way they shot their conversations. First, their conversations are almost always dramatic.
