Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(6)
"He crosses out 'A Play by David Mamet' and he writes 'A Screenplay by David Mamet,' " Zollo says.
A writer has an idea and writes a screenplay, and then that script is shopped around to directors and stars.
A security guard who works at a movie studio writes a screenplay and asks a big star to look at it.
But to Laurence Maslon, a writer of the PBS series "Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America," it's the old "SCTV" skit "Play It Again, Bob," in which Woody Allen (played by Rick Moranis) writes a screenplay for Bob Hope (impersonated by Dave Thomas), that best summarizes the PBS project.
Feng then went on to deliver one of the most startling comments I've heard from a mainstream Chinese artist in years: Say a director writes a screenplay.… He racks his brain, and plumbs his mind to come up with one interesting sentence — one good detail, a believable context, a background we can relate to.… And then the [censors] will say this phrase has to be changed, that phrase cannot be said.
She next appeared in the 1996 independent film Far Harbor as Elie, a prominent person in a Hollywood studio who writes a screenplay based on her traumas.
Similar(54)
Have you ever written a screenplay?
"And he's been writing a screenplay.
His wife wrote a screenplay, "Mrs.
He is now writing a screenplay.
Upstairs, a man is writing a screenplay about assassins.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com