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Savor Lush ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Visual Screenplay with BTS Stills, Maps, and Shooting Diagrams

01.20.13 @ 1:30PM Tags : academyawards, awards, behindthescenes, bts, moonrisekingdom, romancoppola, screenplay, screenwriting, script, scriptwriting, wesanderson

In the spirit of consideration for the highest honors a work may receive in our field, we have been keeping you up to date with a number of scripts seeking nomination — one of the earliest of these was Moonrise Kingdom, which has in fact been nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Interestingly enough, and in contrast to the rest of the scripts you may have caught so far, the script for Moonrise Kingdom is now also available in a new, very unique textual-visual version, complete with an interactive navigator. Read on for the details of this ‘Screenplay 2.0′ below. More »

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Wes Anderson Describes How He Avoids Writing Themes on 'The Treatment'

07.28.12 @ 10:34AM Tags : elvismitchell, moonrisekingdom, screenwriting, theme, treatment, wesanderson

Some screenwriting resources stress that a theme must be clearly stated or emphasized in a screenplay, preferably near the beginning, sometimes even on a specific page. This has never made any sense to me. While I won’t argue that a theme can’t or shouldn’t be explicitly stated in a screenplay or film, a good story well told reveals its theme over the course of the entire story arc, in my opinion. In fact, writer/director Wes Anderson claims he never consciously writes his screenplays around any particular theme in a recent episode of Elvis Mitchell’s The Treatment. More »