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Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Team Up to Make a Short Film for Prada Candy L’Eau Perfume - nofilmschool. Frequent collaborators Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola get together once again to bring us a short film for Prada’s new fragrance Prada Candy.

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Team Up to Make a Short Film for Prada Candy L’Eau Perfume - nofilmschool

The film has its auteurs’ thematic, cinematic, and aesthetic fingerprints all over it, which makes you forget that you’re in fact watching a commercial. Set in France, the film follows two young and attractive men as they vie for the affections of the beautiful “Candy.” Watch the short and go behind the scenes after the jump: Mirroring the fragrance itself in its tone, mise-en-scène, and actress Léa Seydoux, this “filmercial” (thanks Fashionista for that gem!) Is playful, seductive, and warm.

Even though the narrative is simple, the film about this ménage à trois garnered significant attention, so much so that a behind-the scenes-featurette was made. What do you think about Anderson and Coppola’s short film? Link: Prada Candy L’Eau — YouTube [via Creative Planet Network] Related Posts. Cinema. Top 10 Screenwriting Tips Introduction to Screenwriting How to become a screenwriter. Over the last quarter century I’ve stumbled and lurched my way to some understanding of the screenwriter’s craft.

Top 10 Screenwriting Tips Introduction to Screenwriting How to become a screenwriter

As our AFTRS Graduate Certificate of Screenwriting students begin their journey, I thought I’d share the 10 things I wish I’d know when I started out. 1. Why people go to the movies If you’re making films to be viewed by the cinema-going public, it would seem pretty obvious that you should seek to understand why people go the movies, wouldn’t it? Not to me. “What people are seeking is the feeling of being alive. They want to be moved, guys. Learn more about why people go to the movies 2. Most writers starting out think story is plot and when you ask them to tell you about their film they’ll go, “Well, this happens, and that happens, and then this other things happens, and oh, and I forgot to tell you, there’s this three-legged dog who can talk … “ However, once you understand that people want to be moved, you should realise that the main game in story is not plot. 3. 4.

Stop Staring at the Blank Page: How Creativity Works in Our Minds. Every screenwriter gets stuck.

Stop Staring at the Blank Page: How Creativity Works in Our Minds

Some call it writer’s block. Others don’t believe writer’s block exists. Either way, every writer runs into a problem that stops the writing process cold. Then despair sets in. Usually. Jonah Lehrer, a contributing Editor at Wired Magazine and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, recently published a book called Imagine: How Creativity Works, in which he describes how scientists have studied how the brain works when we engage in the creative process. One of the highlights from the interview includes Lehrer’s telling of the story of how Bob Dylan reinvented himself as a musician.

Lehrer explains how Dylan had his breakthrough: [I]t came at his darkest moment. Using Dylan as an example, Lehrer goes on to explain that the way we traditionally think of productivity and solving problems is essentially backwards: The final point worth highlighting from Lehrer’s interview revolves around brainstorming versus constructive criticism. Related Posts. The craft of screenwriting, movies, Hollywood, and the creative life. The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)

Screenplays for You - free movie scripts and screenplays. Cult Movies - Top 10 List - Top Ten List. Top 10 Films About Nonconformists "This is a world where everybody's gotta do something.

Cult Movies - Top 10 List - Top Ten List

Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. " "Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. "They're not that different from you, are they? "My life, I mean . . . "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. "I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. "Vice, Virtue. "Anybody here? "And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable.

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