10 Screenwriting Lessons We Can Learn from…BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)

Like much of Paul Thomas Anderson’s work, the BOOGIE NIGHTS screenplay has an odd structure, divergent POV and a hefty length, yet every page of it is full of worthwhile lessons for screenwriters. Here are ten: Conflict doesn’t need to be constant It’s the nature of any medium that, after a certain amount of time, there are trends that become so prevalent they form a kind of language: The image of a dog in art representing fidelity. Items of a

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