Imagine one of my characters speaks a foreign language. Any other language would therefore be foreign. In other words, if you submit a screenplay to the US industry, the convention in screenplay format is that the default language spoken by your characters will be American English.
In screenplay format the assumption is that you write your screenplay in the language that your reader reads. What's the criteria to determine the "default" language of your characters and the foreign one? "Default language" versus foreign language That's what this screenplay format commandment is about.
Here is the link to Part 1, where it all started.
#CHRISTOPHER CROWE SCREENWRITER SERIES#
If you missed the introduction to this series of articles, you may want to check it out first. We asked our format expert, Matt, aka Formatman, to lead us through the 10 formatting commandments.
#CHRISTOPHER CROWE SCREENWRITER FULL#
Also, in late 1999, Crowe released his second book, Conversations with Billy Wilder, a question and answer session with the legendary director.ĭescription above from the Wikipedia article Cameron Crowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.#9: "Thou shalt not lose the reader in translation" Part of the dialogue is also inspired by comments that were made by Bebe Buell in certain interviews. Crowe has stated that the Penny Lane character was based on his fellow San Diegan, Geraldine Edwards, who he met in 1975, as mentioned earlier. Centering on a teenage music journalist on tour with an up-and-coming band, it gave insight to his life as a 15-year-old writer for Rolling Stone. After this, he was given a green light to go ahead with a pet project, the autobiographical effort Almost Famous. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, Say Anything, and then Singles, a story of Seattle twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering on that city's burgeoning grunge music scene.Ĭrowe landed his biggest hit, though, with Jerry Maguire. Michael Walker in The New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation" because his first few films focused on that specific age group, first as highers and then as young adults making their way in the world.Ĭrowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, where he met Geraldine Edwards, who was a student there, and who he later based his Penny Lane character on in Almost Famous, when he discovered she was going backstage to rock and roll concerts. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and devoid of cynicism. Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American screenwriter and film director.īefore moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.
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