Succession. The dialogue kills it.
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131We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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133I agree and I actually enjoyed it. Every time someone has made something with elevated, witty repartee type dialogue that's too wordy to be natural it's aged horribly. The 90's are littered with examples: Clerks, Vanilla Sky, Dawson's Creek.
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134Haven't seen the show, but . . .
One of the first pieces of wisdom that should be imparted to anyone writing a screenplay or teleplay, is that all dialog takes up a lot more space when uttered in the context of a movie or show than it does on the page. Many people have mentioned this. It keeps getting mentioned for a reason. It's why it's easier to pull off certain passages within a book than it would be in dramatic, audio-visual form. I think you can have heady conversations in anything, but it takes skilled actors (and directing) to pull off dialog that's more involved. Like, the monolog by Ingrid Thulin in Winter Light--give that to any old actor and good luck getting comparable results. I feel nervous just thinking about it.losthighway wrote:Every time someone has made something with elevated, witty repartee type dialogue that's too wordy to be natural it's aged horribly.
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137There would be no Succession without Gilmore Girls.losthighway wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:11 amI agree and I actually enjoyed it. Every time someone has made something with elevated, witty repartee type dialogue that's too wordy to be natural it's aged horribly. The 90's are littered with examples: Clerks, Vanilla Sky, Dawson's Creek.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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138Somehow I enjoyed Succession even when I did not understand what they were talking about. That's like 50-60 percent of the time.