I use final draft that has a copyright function in the program.

Wait it does??? I never knew that

kb.finaldraft.com/s/article/How-can-I-be-sure-my-script-will-not-be-plagiarized

yeah it links you to register it with the WGA. You still have to pay and fill out the forms needed tho. I'd wait to do it when you think the script is 100% polished.

Thanks, Imma check it out

@twitch did u read the 2015 uncut gems screenplay ?

I haven't read it but I believe I have it? Is it the one where Troy ave is on the title page? and the other actors

what classic you cooking up?

Howard says nigga

lmao...howard was suppose to be spanish at that point huh

Damn I don't remember Troy ave but u should read it it's very different

drive.google.com/file/d/1NEUl3_wgUmIzV7ysxywtZth3QEdwNqsr/view

this the one i have. it's dated as 2015

but word whats the general plot of it?

He's Jew still

I gotta request access

I'm on my third rewrite but it's not a screenplay tho. More like a manuscript for a book (if Terrence Malick made a crime thriller; that's the vibe). I just enjoy seeing other creatives cook, you know?

damn i forgot that site i use is restricted...but the version I got has an extra title page, a cast page and a director statement page

thats why i said spanish cus of who they got listed as howard

most definitely gang, that's dope

Oh yeah that's the one, mine didn't have that graphic

I'm trying to work on doing as little of exposition as possible, the bare minimum. I have a theory that as a rookie, your screenplay automatically gets elevated even more if it's not full of exposition. It seems to be one of the biggest things readers hate.

Plus I love when movies just throw you into the world without explaining XY and Z, you just kinda figure it out along the way as more of the story gets revealed

Like with Blue Ruin I like how it just starts off with bro being homeless and it jumps right into the story. It isn't any narrator explaining why he's homeless or what happened to his parents. Or with the cop they didn't say anything cliche like "I know life has been hard since your parents died last year, you use to be so ambitious and ever since they got killed you lost your job and went downhill from there"

All that extra info doesn't even matter. It's real simple, he hears his parents killer is getting released. He pulls up, does his s***. Accidentally kidnapped the nephew (or whoever he was in the limo) and says "I hurt him because he hurt my parents"...yeah that's exposition but it's simplified to 1 quick line just to inform us of why hes seeking revenge.

Now all of this is easier to convey because the movie barely has dialogue, and the less dialogue you have the less of a risk to do exposition dumps. My goal is to dialogue heavy character studies that avoid heavy exposition.

agreed

We feeling inspired after last night?

Yup

Let’s our ideas on paper