Put your knife in your screenplay.
If you read this site, you may have picked up that I am a huge Rian Johnson fan. I admire his work on original screenplays, and how much he’s done to revive and work on genres that speak to him. He’s a master at flipping tropes and engaging with our expectations. If you don’t know much about Johnson, I’ll bring you up to speed.
Johnson is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director. He is known for writing and directing movies such as Brick (2005), the heist comedy The Brothers Bloom (2008), the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and the murder-mystery Knives Out (2019), the last of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Seems like the perfect person to learn some writing tips from today.
Check out this video from Outstanding Screenplays, and we’ll talk after.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
