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Caddyshack: The Unlikely Classic and Behind-the-Scenes Mayhem

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Conversation with award-winning screenwriter Roberto Roy Nylund (BLOOD RED), about the film he’s watched the most times in his life: CADDYSHACK

The film really has a great behind-the-scenes story to tell, as director Harold Ramis completely changed the original screenplay setup in post-production and remade the film with the footage he had. Remakable.

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Watch the best scene script reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtieadtYQNM

Summary: Researching transfusion therapy on different blood groups, something goes completely wrong when the test subjects start mutating and transforming into Zombie like creatures.

Get to know the writer:

What is your screenplay about?

A day in the life of a biotech firm takes center stage in Blood Red as we travel from floor to floor, department to department, meeting the teams that comprise Edgewater Laboratories and their sometimes adversarial motivations.

Edgewater’s Chief Science Officer, Dr. Ruby Beck, is the inventor of a synthetic blood she’s named Ichor for the mythical golden fluid that ran in the veins of the gods. Ruby explains to an audience of investors gathered at the company’s headquarters that every two seconds, someone needs blood due to injury or disease.

Imagine a limitless supply of healthy blood in every hospital, school, military unit, and remote location. No more relying on donations. No more chance of contamination. No more delays in supply or delivery.

Three floors below, eight patients are halfway through the final trials of Ichor in the aftermath of a violent protest against the ethics of artificial blood that has put the entire company on edge. But today, something is different. Sabotage of the Ichor infusion is affecting each patient differently with horrifying results.

The day begins with routine patient observation and nerves around hosting the company’s first investor conference before spiraling out of control as we root for Ruby, fighting for her life from floor to floor while trying to unwind the conspiracy threatening her creation.

Ruby must reconcile if her creation is the pinnacle of healthcare or a threat to humanity.

What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Horror / Thriller

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Horror remains one of the few genres that’s arguably still best experienced in the theater with a crowd to share in the frights, jump scares, and wild reactions to what’s on the screen. Safety in numbers!

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The Dangers of Historical Revisionism in Hungary

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Podcast chat with historian Tom White, director Daniel Matmor, & producer Jody Glover, from the feature documentary HIDDEN – The Kati Preston Story.

Conversation on how societies can descend into authoritarianism and vicious anti-semitism in a slow vicious way. It never happens overnight.

Daniel Matmor opines that the Hungarian film school, which was once a great place for storytelling, has sunk to idiots on the board wanting to make movies that are revisionisms of history (AKA: Pure propaganda films!) and brainwashing the next generations of filmmakers.

LISTEN to the full podcast: https://youtu.be/kYSMPwitj_o

HIDDEN – The Kati Preston Story is a powerful journey seen through the eyes of a child—a firsthand account of a society’s slow and insidious descent into authoritarianism, dictatorship, and tyranny. Kati Preston’s joyful childhood in Hungary came to an end in 1944. Bit by bit, law by law, action by action, her world was dismantled. Everything she knew and loved was stripped away.

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Inspired by the Masters: How Classic Directors Influence Experimental Film

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Conversation with Experimental filmmaker Sary Andre El Asmar, from Lebanon on being influenced by classic Hollywood directors to make his films.

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Turmoil – Chapter One, 6min., Lebanon
Directed by Sary Andre El Asmar

A young woman lives between two worlds: Europe, where she’s built a life, and Lebanon, the home she can’t stop longing for. Torn between memory and desire, she drifts back and forth, riding the emotional rollercoaster of exile, identity, and belonging.

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

What motivated me to make this film was the complex feeling of belonging and displacement that many Lebanese expats carry. I started filming randomly with no clear plan.When my friend, who lives in Germany, came back to Lebanon we spent many days together, and after that i began to sense the constant push and pull, the urge to return to her home but at the same time the desire to leave again. For me home is where your roots are, but it’s also where safety feels uncertain. The film became a reflection of living between two places, two lives, and two versions of what “home” means.

From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

Well actually, I have been shooting randomly for about 1 year and a half. I am a sea lover and mountain lover. So I used to shoot randomly every time I went out. But the idea of putting those shots into the final product took me like 3 months.

How would you describe your film in two words!?Wandering Roots

What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?Emotional breakdowns

There are 5 Stages of Filmmaking: 1) Development. 2) Pre-Production. 3) Production. 4) Post-Production. 5) Distribution.What is your favorite stage of the process and why?4) Post-Production because this process is where the real story telling happens , where I can put all my emotions and meanings to start to take shape.

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The SCREWBALL COMEDY Genre. (Past, Present, Future)

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What is a Screwball Comedy?

A comedy that is characterized by fast-paced, witty dialogue, farcical situations, and romantic storylines that often involve a battle of the sexes. They emerged in the 1930s and became popular in the 1940s.

How is it different than a straight up romantic comedy?

Screwball is a genre that focuses less the romantic courtship between two people, and more on the battle of the sexes. It always has a strong female protagonist, and usually a male protagonist trying to keep up with her. It puts the emphasis on the spoofing of love, rather than the “will they get together” plot. Where did the term “screwball” come from? It gets its name from the baseball pitch “the screwball”.

Famous screwball comedy films?

It Happened One Night (1934) Directed by Frank Capra. Starred Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert

Bringing Up Baby (1938) Directed by Howard Hawks. Starred Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant

The Philadelphia Story (1940). Directed by George Cukor. Also Starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant. With James Stewart added to the mix.

The brand declined in popularity through the years, but it still shows up in its style. The Coen Brothers have made a few with “Intolerable Cruelty”, “The Hudsucker Proxy”, and “Hail Caeser” Bridesmaids (2011), written and starring Kristen Wiig is considered a screwball comedy.

Is any one a fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino TV shows?:

Gilmore Girls. The Marvelous Mr. Maisel. Étoile. Those television shows are more definitely classic Screwball Comedies. From the characters. plot points. fast paced dialogue. Even the way the shows are directed – are classic screwball!

Enjoy the past, present, and future of the Screwball Comedy!

What is a Screwball Comedy?

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Submit your film or screenplay to the WILDsound Festival today:
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival

What is a Screwball Comedy?

A comedy that is characterized by fast-paced, witty dialogue, farcical situations, and romantic storylines that often involve a battle of the sexes. They emerged in the 1930s and became popular in the 1940s.

How is it different than a straight up romantic comedy?

Screwball is a genre that focuses less the romantic courtship between two people, and more on the battle of the sexes. It always has a strong female protagonist, and usually a male protagonist trying to keep up with her.

It puts the emphasis on the spoofing of love, rather than the “will they get together” plot.

Where did the term “screwball” come from?

It gets its name from the baseball pitch “the screwball”. For those unfamiliar with baseball, it’s a pitch a pitcher throws to a batter that moves in the opposite direction than a typical baseball pitch like a fastball, curveball, or slider.

A screwball is an oddball pitch, like the female leads in the 1930s comedy films where they played the “opposite” of your typical female stereotype that were back in the day.

Instead of wanting to find a husband, birth a few babies and be a homemaker – the female leads in the “screwball comedy” are strong, independent from men, and want to focus their life on their passions.

They are attracted to men, but will only begin a courtship of any kind if it was on their terms – not the mans.

Famous screwball comedy films?

It Happened One Night (1934)

Directed by Frank Capra. Starred Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Directed by Howard Hawks. Starred Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant

The Philadelphia Story (1940).

Directed by George Cukor. Also Starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant. With James Stewart added to the mix.

The brand declined in popularity through the years, but it still shows up in its style. The Coen Brothers have made a few with “Intolerable Cruelty”, “The Hudsucker Proxy”, and “Hail Caeser”

Bridesmaids (2011), written and starring Kristen Wiig is considered a screwball comedy.

Is any one a fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino TV shows?: Gilmore Girls. The Marvelous Mr. Maisel. Étoile.

Those television shows are more definitely classic Screwball Comedies. From the characters. plot points. fast paced dialogue. Even the way the shows are directed – are classic screwball!

Enjoy the past, present, and future of the Screwball Comedy!