I caught The King's Speech last night at the local theatre and the damn thing floored me. Took my breath away. What an amazing movie. Simple, yet complex as we follow the Duke to the thrown he doesn't even want due to his stammering. Although it was subtley directed, passionately acted...the writing was quietly powerfull. All the explosions happened within the characters themselves or the interactions with each other, not in the fx department. As an aspiring screenwriter, every once in awhile a script comes along that gives me this feeling of awe...as is in awe shucks, I wish that was mine! David Seidler's screenplay did just that for me last night.
As I lay in front of the television pretending that watching American Idol is somehow preparing me to write, as I lay in bed reading because I need to step away from a story that I haven't even visited in days, as hold my phone trying to come up with something witty to tweet about, I could have been writing. Attempting to write a script that moves me the the way Mr. Seidler moved so many of us last night. When the "Every Once In A While" story strikes, it inspires me to move from the couch or the bed or from the phone and plop myself in front of the computer and dive into the world that exists, for me, inside. It motivates me to, allow the characters clamouring inside my head, taunting me to give them breath, to have their voices heard, put them on paper. It's the Inspiration of Motivation that has moved me to delve back into the souls of these charaters and attempt to do what David Seidler did do. I MAY never sell a screenplay I write and that's ok... but I'll NEVER sell a screenplay I never wrote.
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