The Art of Movies

Movies are a big part of my life. In reality, movies are a big part of everybody's life. It is a billion dollar industry. Actors are plastered all over magazines, billboards and the television. But when you watch a movie, you don't think about all the work it takes before the it makes it on screen.

That's where the screenplays come in. In my writer's craft class we experienced first hand the art of creating a screenplay. It's basically a novel only formatted a very specific way. Writing my small chunk of a screenplay was beyond challenging! It was frustrating because you can picture it in your head, but it's so much harder to make it come alive on the page.

I did my screenplay on one of my favourite movie genres. It's a war film. War movies like Saving Private Ryan and the Band of Brothers are some of my favourites. Now don't get the wrong idea about me: I don't like war. I don't think war is glorious or glamourous. I find war horrible to say the least. But a wanted to make a movie that was realistic and exposed the horrors of the war. My screenplay Someone Else's War is based on a true story during the Vietman war. Please excuse the messed up formatting, and I apoligize ahead of time if you read it, because there is some strong language (like I said, I wanted everything to be as raw and realistic as possible!).