Scripts by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

[DoubleIT]

Anyone know of where I can get any scripts Jean-Pierre Jeunet has written, online? The only one I can find is Aliens 4, I need to compare 2. I would love to read the script to Amelie but i cant seem to find it, so any other one wil do. This is for a school assignment where I have to compare two screen plays and discuss what amkes a screen writer distinctive. Everyone is doing Tarinttino or Kaufman so i figured id try someone different.

Or does anyone have a sugesion of who to do whose scripts are online for free?

[NikeeGoddess]

i suggest you study David Mamet - he is the master of dialogue and i'm sure you'll find a few of his scripts online.

check him out: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000519/

[randesq]

writers that find this site, somehow can't find the sites like drewsscriptorama or simplywrite. Google it baby!!

Now, I'd stay away from anyone's source material (i.e. Alien 4) and seek out those writers that have their own perspective. I think if you connect with a certain way the page looks or dig the way the narrative is tight or whatever... then you have a chance of developing your own style or at least understanding what you're trying to accomplish.

Have you ever read The Thing? It's a brilliant screenplay and there's actually a few sites that you can see the storyboards as you're reading. Great learning tool. Go seek out the scenario magazine site. You can purchase 40 screen plays for 75 bucks. They're a goldmine. Read a bunch of scripts of films you enjoy, seek out the classics. (i.e. stalag 17) has been ripped off a hundred times, never duplicated.

I don't think reading mamet is going to help when he's seeking out Aliens 4, but then again Jean-Pierre Jeunet wrote Delicatessen. I say, if you're going for character driven films find Paul Auster, Horton Foote, Steve Zaillian, etc.

You can find anything you need on the net. This screenwriting game takes gumption, diligence, and a general maniacal blind pursuit of a carrot that changes direction every five seconds. I don't know one successful writer that hasn't scratched his way to his perch, and that's the point of view we get to see on the page.

I say compare two trainwrecks. Guaranteed A.

Scott Rosenberg to William Blatty.

I just went to drews and found these tasty sci fi beauties. If that's what you're searching for. (incidentally all your alien scripts are there)

12 Monkeys - David Peoples (terrific script)
American werewold in London - John Landis
The Thing - Bill Lancaster
Blade Runner - Hampton Fancher

gl - most important thing, if you're going to be a writer, try to write.

[maestrowork]

The script of The Talented Mr. Ripley is fantastic. It reads like you're actually seeing the movie -- it's that visual. And the tension, suspense, character depth...

[DoubleIT]

writers that find this site, somehow can't find the sites like drewsscriptorama or simplywrite. Google it baby!!


I cant belive writers who dont read! I know about script-o-rama and clearly it doesnt have any of Jeunets other scripts. Alien 4 would be the last of his films that id like to compare, but its the only one i can find at no cost online.

I dont appriciate your other advice, i just dont see the need for the tone, seeing how I did 'google' it before posting here (Although now i too have adopted a hostile tone)

Anyway getting back on track, I will take a look at your sugetions and will throw Jeunet on the back burner (I just finished reading 'Moviemakers Master Class' which had a segment by him, which was one reason for wanting to do him). And trust me, i write (I posted my 20 page short that i am producing here a while back)

Only David Mamet film ive seen is Wag the Dog... perhaps i have been missing out and will and will have to take a look at some of his other work. I am also going to have to read the Ripley script now after that glowing review.

[vig]

here's a lolipop double, nice little boy, you wrote twenty pages.... i write twenty pages to loosen up you pansy.


vig

[Joe Calabrese]

The BIG problem is Jean didn't write Aliens: Resurrection (Josh Whedon did). Jean only directed it.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet only wrote (as a screenwriter) the following films:

A Very Long Engagement
Amélie
Delicatessen
The City of Lost Children
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

And none of those are available online for free.

I suggest you look for a writer who has written two scripts which can be found online. Mamet, Goldman, Logan to name a few.

[DoubleIT]

here's a lolipop double, nice little boy, you wrote twenty pages.... i write twenty pages to loosen up you pansy.


vig

Can it be a blue raz blow pop? Those are good.

[DoubleIT]

The BIG problem is Jean didn't write Aliens: Resurrection (Josh Whedon did). Jean only directed it.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet only wrote (as a screenwriter) the following films:

A Very Long Engagement
Amélie
Delicatessen
The City of Lost Children
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots

And none of those are available online for free.

I suggest you look for a writer who has written two scripts which can be found online. Mamet, Goldman, Logan to name a few.

Im and idiot, and thank you

[Joe Calabrese]

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JOBLO MOVIE SCRIPTS
The number one source of free movie scripts/movie screenplays on the Internet.
http://www.joblo.com/moviescripts.php
SCRIPTCRAWLER
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DREW'S SCRIPT-O-RAMA
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http://www.script-o-rama.com/
MOVIE SCRIPTS AND SCREENPLAYS WEB RING HOME SITE
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http://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/index.html
SCREENPLAY 451
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http://www.pumpkinsoft.de/screenplay451/
SCREENTALK
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http://www.screentalk.biz/gallery.htm
INFLOW'S SCEENPLAY REPOSITORY
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http://corky.net/scripts/
SIMPLY SCRIPTS
Links to hundreds of scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts
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THE WEEKLY SCRIPT
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AWESOME SCRIPTS & SCREENPLAYS
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SATAN'S SCRIPT-O-RAMA!
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