This scene will teach you how to spice up your long dialogue scenes.
Realistic dialogue can be challenging to write, but capturing that dialogue in an engaging and realistic style is a whole other challenge. How can you transform a simple conversation or argument into a memorable scene that will evoke a specific mood from your audience? Well, look no further than Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy.
The Before trilogy infamously doesn’t have much going on throughout its plot. Instead, the films focus on the beauty of dialogue and how it can create a minimal style of storytelling that explores romantic love over time. Director and writer Richard Linklater crafts each dialogue-heavy scene to stay interesting as it plays to the emotions between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy).
Lessons from the Screen breaks down how Linklater and editor Sandra Adair create an engaging and realistic dialogue scene through the subtext, movement, location, and pacing in the climax hotel scene in Before Midnight. You can check out the full video below.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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