The phrase "a scene about a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific scene in a narrative or discussing the content of a scene in a story, film, or play.
Example: "The director crafted a scene about a young girl discovering her hidden talents."
Alternatives: "a moment concerning a" or "a depiction of a".
Any playwright can invent a scene about a drug dealer with a collection crisis: two customers who can't pay.
I have to tell you this character has to play a scene — about a five-minute scene — naked from the waist down with her husband.
But all four films, which are each about 20 minutes long and are on view at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on the Lower East Side through Feb. 27, feel like fresh takes on architecture, avoiding the clichés about architects as pretentious eggheads oblivious to their clients' needs (although there is a scene about a leaky roof).
There was the camera crew that had taken over its spacious living room; the video monitors running in its garage; and actors like Kristen Wiig and Edward Burns casually preparing food in the kitchen as if they were getting ready for a dinner party rather than for a scene about a dinner party.
Earlier that week the "Human Giant" squad had devised a scene about a pair of illusionists whose stunts typically end in carnage and property damage; now they were trying to shoot the sequence as swiftly as possible, and get back to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in time for the 11 p.m. set.
Of course, in her case, it's "The Chipmunk Adventure," and a scene about a lost baby penguin, that has her all choked up.
If she tells you to write a scene about an attack of killer prawns, follow her lead.
There is a scene about an hour into Naina Sen's documentary The Song Keepers in which a woman in her 60s ascends a ridge.
This afternoon she has been watching the cast rehearse a scene about an "Enron death weekend" in which the bonus-heavy execs got to ride team-building dune buggies.
"I can write a scene describing in detail a penis entering a vagina and there will be a portion of the audience who will get very upset by that and then I can write a scene about an axe entering a human skull, nobody will blink".
Mr. Todd is also a co-author of "Causing a Scene," about the antics of Improv Everywhere.
