The 15 Minute Movie Method

December 2016

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Comedy Relentlessly Hits a Target

December 30, 2016
The best comedies have two crucial elements. First, the story behind the comedy could actually be a drama. Second, the comedy focuses on a single...
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Telling a Story with Pictures

December 27, 2016
Most bad screenplays occur because the screenwriter focuses on the details while losing track of the overall story. If you can’t tell a good story,...
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Explaining the Villain’s Motives

December 24, 2016
In many bad movies, especially bad James Bond movies, the villain explains to the hero what’s going on. This generally slows the action to a...
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Video Games Equal Bad Movies

December 21, 2016
“Assassin’s Creed” is the latest video game to be turned into a movie, and yet it’s gotten poor ratings from the critics. “Assassin’s Creed” suffers...
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Animation or Live?

December 18, 2016
Animated films have become popular recently because the cost of animation has gone down with the help of computers. In the old days, cartoons were...
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Dramatizing a Scene

December 15, 2016
At first glance, a scene might appear to do nothing more than move the story forward, yet if that’s all a scene does, it’s likely...
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Adding Drama to Novel Adaptations

December 12, 2016
If you haven’t read or seen “The Martian” or “Inferno,” you might want to stop reading right now to avoid spoiling the ending of the...
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Why Dan Brown Novels Make Mediocre Movies

December 9, 2016
When author Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” became a best seller and cultural phenomenon, it made sense that a top notice director like Ron...
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Showing the Change in the Hero

December 6, 2016
Every story its about the hero changing to become a better person. The key is making sure the audience sees and understands that change as...
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The Element of Time

December 2, 2016
There are two extremes to time. In the 1995 movie “Nick of Time,” Johnny Depp plays a man who’s told to kill a state governor...
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About Wallace Wang

First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.

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