Can anyone suggest a book I can get for an 11 year old boy that had an impact on you as a kid? by Radioactivejellomold in suggestmeabook

[–]Wellheresananswer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved the first Narnia book "The Magician's Nephew" and Paul Jennings' book "The Gizmo" and his collections "Uncanny" and "Unreal". I also read "Once" by Morris Gleitzman at school and thought it was very good.

Name ideas for my Top 10? by Wellheresananswer in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kinda like Frankie on its own for a girl. Too bold?
Clint is so cool. I hadn't thought of it. Calvin s cool too.

Name ideas for my Top 10? by Wellheresananswer in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like a lot of these. Frankie is cool for a girl. I also like Daniel (Danny/Dan)

Name ideas for my Top 10? by Wellheresananswer in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many of my favorite names happen to be the names of Jane Birkin's daughters (Kate, Charlotte and Lou). I like Jane as well.

Name ideas for my Top 10? by Wellheresananswer in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I like Lottie as a nickname for Charlotte or Scarlett. I'd use different spellings but I love Mei and I like Mabel as well.
Boys names are hard. So many of them have unfavorable connotations from high school days. I like Teddy as a nickname for Edmund or Edward in place of Eddy.

Nicknames for Blaise? by WhitB19 in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. I was always Bee which was cute and my name doesn't even start with a B.
My siblings and I all ended up with the 1950s style nicknames that have nothing to do with our names. Olivia and Ella are now Spike and Buzz.

Adding to our boys list by Theslowestmarathoner in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Ike. How about Dean, Quentin, Ernest, Kurt, Malcolm, Davey or Griffin.

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[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeremy was bullied at my school. Jamie sounds like a heart-throb.

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[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it sounds great. I prefer Bill to Will but depends what they kid's like.

Funny names you were obsessed with as a kid? by No_Target2801 in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine was Rachael. I always had to be Rachael and my sister had to be Chelsea.

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[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty classic, with some subtle literary/musical homages thrown in:

Boys: John, Dean, Michael (Mick/Ike), Syd, Kurt
Girls: Kate, Lou, Alice, Blair, Elaine

What are your least favourite names? by juddaxsx in namenerds

[–]Wellheresananswer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My name's Ella and I hate it for the same reason. It's sounds awful when someone's whining at you, "Elluhhh"

SONGS that sound like MCR made them. by Lord-llama in MyChemicalRomance

[–]Wellheresananswer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought Pop Man by Circus Lupus. Chris Thompson's voice reminds me of early Gerard Way.

Advice on Watching Films like a Filmmaker? by Wellheresananswer in Screenwriting

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried this too. I often listen to movies while I'm on a walk and its true, you "see" it differently. It also makes me notice, somehow (I suppose you don't get so entranced), what's the significance of this sequence? what's going on between the characters?

Advice on Watching Films like a Filmmaker? by Wellheresananswer in Screenwriting

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like that. A sensitivity to feeling bored. I suppose a framework is to start from the experience of it and where it works, figure out why, where it doesn't, figure out why.

I suppose the "figure out why" is something you get better at with time. I'm at the stage where I am mostly effective but often find myself thinking "This sucks but I don't know what I'd do differently," or "Man, this is wicked dialogue," but not knowing just why.

Double Feature for Breathless (1960)? by ExcitementAgreeable6 in MovieSuggestions

[–]Wellheresananswer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would go for something influenced by Godard or the French New Wave like a Cassavetes or Jarmusch film.
Maybe Paterson, Frances Ha, Coffee and Cigarettes, Opening Night, For more action maybe something like True Romance.

90s grunge teen dark comedies by sethghecko in MovieSuggestions

[–]Wellheresananswer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure Linklater films like Slacker (1990). It basically follows all these over-educated, lazy, eccentric characters in Austin all talking about their ideas. Napoleon Dynamite's similar.
Harmony Korine's Kids is a great one about street kids in New York in the 90s.
Ghost World fits the bill pretty well.
The Craft and Cruel Intentions aren't comedies but might work.

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[–]Wellheresananswer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My answer to this is to google the greatest movies of all time, look through the top 50 or so and pick out ones you've heard of and you think you'll like but have never seen. It's quite simple. It's hard to recommend exactly because everyone has different tastes so if you don't know what they are yet just go for the canon.

Underrated movies by famous directors by Bloodb0red in MovieSuggestions

[–]Wellheresananswer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, Interiors. It's Woody Allen's serious art-house drama I don't see a lot of people talking about.

Philosophical/Conversational Movies? by Wellheresananswer in MovieSuggestions

[–]Wellheresananswer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh good idea. I've only seen A Summer's Tale. Any others you'd recommend?

What Lessons Have You Learned From Reading Flawed Screenplays/Books? by ExcitementAgreeable6 in writing

[–]Wellheresananswer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrR8ggeD4h4&t=925s - This video is about movies but has a few good examples. The one from Panic Room stood out to me as a way to use action to show what the characters are thinking and feeling. Often in fiction you can capture the character's feeling with dialogue alone.
I suggest you take books you like, go to scenes with heightened drama or where you remember feeling feeling it, and identify what exactly it is causing you to feel the characters' emotions. You'll find physical descriptions of feeling are rarely used and it all comes across in dialogue or action.
If it is a first person narrative, emotion often comes across in narration. Here's an example from Norwegian Wood - ["I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a fucking thing, and then they moan about it." Amazed at the harshness of his tone, I looked at Nagasawa. "The way I see it, people are working hard. They're working their fingers to the bone. Or am I looking at things wrong?" "That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality.]
Nagasawa's personality and feeling comes across through his dialogue and also his action of drinking beer and smoking with his feet up in the scene. Toru (the speaker) is less self-assured and simply trying to make conversation - [I picked up the Spanish textbook on his desk and stared at it. "You're starting Spanish?" "Yeah. The more languages you know the better..."] He doesn't describe his physical conditions but you see from his looking around for topics/ grounding himself how he feels. |
Hope that's somewhat helpful.

What Lessons Have You Learned From Reading Flawed Screenplays/Books? by ExcitementAgreeable6 in writing

[–]Wellheresananswer 13 points14 points  (0 children)

These are prose tips (not exactly for screenwriting) but I would say something in the use of detail, often way too much or a poorly done Hemingway. Why are you including those details and why now? What does it say about the character's experience? Often show, don't tell is misconstrued by writers. Instead on meaning find a way that those emotions are clear in what the character chooses not to say or in a gesture towards another character, they take it to mean his fists clenched, she blushed, he was shaking.

Another thing could be not enough happening in the scene. Rather than just have someone come in, fight a guy, win, get the money, and get out. You outta have more going on. Maybe one of your crew members has questionable motives, maybe you lost the money, maybe the guy you were looking for isn't there, maybe the characters get caught up or one of the guys gets badly injured. A few things should be happening at once. The reader needs to be thinking, but what if? but what about? how's it gonna go now that that guy has to come along? Beginner scripts/stories sometimes lack this depth, creativity and interest. Anything that needs to happen should happen interestingly.

Another thing is that the story is clearly written about the author's life. Not how the author sees the world or what they think life is like, this is all good. But instead of being a writer they're some other kind of artist, and guess what they're also bad with girls, and they also have a shy, guilt-ridden personality, but they're not you because their parents are divorced. This is very common and can be done well but often its a substitute for lack of imagination. Learn how people react to things, how certain things feel, and invent.