Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Writing romantic comedy

Less tongue in cheek guidelines for aspiring romcom writers.

Writing romantic comedy screenplays.

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"Without you I'm only me."

Screenwriter Ken Levine breaks down the modern romantic comedy formula.

Be sure to include five block comedy scenes. Zany sequences that generally involve destruction, humiliation, emasculation, dogs, and toilets. If they were making SOME LIKE IT HOT today Joe E. Brown would be giving Jack Lemmon a bikini wax. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH would be Ben-Gay in Marilyn Monroe's panties.

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