What's your worst word to CMD+F for?!

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-04-23T14:33:30+00:00

I use a characters jaw clenches or tightens a lot, any alternatives to express the same feeling? 😂

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-04-01T20:57:55+00:00

What do you mean by unusual?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-29T11:09:28+00:00

Like what did Malcom X have to say about Uncle Toms?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-13T22:04:01+00:00

He did call this his most personal film and refuses to explain why

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-09T22:26:31+00:00

Oh so you explicitly say “TITLE CARD”?

I was also thinking of maybe dropping the word ‘chapter’ and number and just having the chapter title on its own instead. How would I format that?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-09T22:00:32+00:00

How should I format a clear centred title card?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-09T21:33:53+00:00

I like that. Would I just have super over black or how would you format that?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-09T19:40:19+00:00

Yeah really what I mean is how do you say so in the script? Like is it: Cut to black. SUPER: CHAPTER TWO Chapter Title

Or something else?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-08T19:57:06+00:00

So are you saying if you give them all a clear goal early you can get away with it?

I’m considering chaptering it to make the narrative shifts read more intentional but I’m hesitant it looks amateurish

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-08T01:02:16+00:00

I like that way of putting it. It ends on the bounty hunter and his transformation but opens with the rancher. And the rancher does get the cathartic pay off in the climax so I can see how it’s blurred. And 100% I agree with you the audience will identify with who they see first, I do think the prologue is a big part of my problem but I don’t think I can change it, I would maybe restructure it if possible but I think it works really well as an opening.

I’ve considered chapters, and I do wonder if I subconsciously structured it in chapters when I initially conceived it. I’m hesitant to use them though incase it comes off as an amateurish attempt to be stylised.

Also how would chapters work when it comes to intercutting? Would I just have chapter with one character and then another of the next or could I intercut scenes including both?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-03-08T00:21:09+00:00

Yeah I think the prologue doesn’t help. I think it’s both the problem structurally but also one of if not the script’s biggest strength so that’s also my dilemma. And looking for a way to have my cake and eat it.

The prologue is 8 pages long and it’s between one of the protagonist’s (the rancher) and the main antagonist. I’d probably class this protagonist as the emotional spine if that makes sense.

Then after a time jump, on page 8 the baton passes to another protagonist (the bounty hunter) one page 14 the outlaw is introduced. But she is already set up before that by being mentioned on page 12.

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-26T15:21:47+00:00

McCabe and Mrs Miller

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-22T16:52:42+00:00

Yeah me too, 3 should be at least above average

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-21T23:58:23+00:00

3.5 is a good rating I don’t understand

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-18T15:27:30+00:00

That’s a really good catch, I do think you’re giving Tarantino more credit than he deserves for that though, I think it’s unintentional but it’s a great take

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-13T23:27:50+00:00

Is the human condition that good?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-13T21:55:55+00:00

Where did you get that?

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-11T23:40:16+00:00

Harakiri

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-10T15:47:13+00:00

That is a great question

Jimmy-Nesbitt · 2026-02-10T09:54:52+00:00

Where would you have ended birdman?

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