If the project is approved or bought, the spec script enters the next screenwriting phase, in which the story is edited into the final screenplay. To explore a new story they’d like to tell, whether for an established show or for a new film idea, a screenwriter might write what’s called a spec script, a script they’re not being paid to write. The filmmaking journey from spec script to screenplay. “You’re looking for specific types of shots for the angles you want to get.” “It sets out a plan for how you’ll actually get the elements that you need to tell the story,” says videographer David Albright. “I think that’s the main reason you have a shooting script.” “Teams have to be coordinated,” says writer and director Sam Roden. It’s one thing to have an amazing story in place for your film, but a whole other set of information is needed for the production team to work together to realize that vision.
A shooting script is like a combination of a screenplay and a shot list. It’s a version of a screenplay that includes detailed cinematography instructions laid out in the order that they’ll be needed, such as certain camera shots, props, and locations. Whenever JR leaves the bar, the film fades, signaling that the focus should be tighter on Charlie and his nephew.A shooting script is a key piece in the production of a motion picture. That’s partly because JR gets everything he seeks: Yale, a job at The New York Times, a career as a writer and even for a while, that unattainable rich girl. It’s got some great lines - “If you suck at writing, that’s when you become a journalist,” among them - but there is a meandering quality to the film, a lack of sharpness. The screenplay by William Monahan is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by J.R. His Charlie is like that gruff but sweet guy from “Good Will Hunting” all grown up and running a bar, having traded blue-collar Boston for blue-collar Long Island. It largely falls on uncle Charlie to teach JR the so-called “Manly Sciences” - take care of your mother, get a car, don’t hit women, save some cash in your wallet for emergencies and learn to change a tire, among them.Īffleck is getting award-season buzz but this role is tailor-made for him, equal parts roguishly cool, unflashy literary and bluntly honest. JR’s mom - a wonderful Lily Rabe - is not much help, with only one real wish: that her son go to Yale and be a lawyer. If films could smell, this one would reek of cologne, cigars and leather. They give JR advice, steer him and go to functions with him.
A school psychologist theorizes that JR, whose very name, Junior, is derivative of a missing parent, has no identity.īut a community of men - his uncle Charlie (Affleck), his crabby grandfather (Christopher Lloyd), his Yale friends and even a priest on a commuter rail - fill the void. “The Tender Bar” is the story of JR - first starring Daniel Ranieri as an 11-year-old and then Tye Sheridan as a young man - whose father left him and his mom when he was a kid and yet still haunts his son as a distant voice - he’s a DJ on the radio. It’s a George Clooney-directed, Ben Affleck-starring celebration of men set in the ‘70s and ’80s that uses a charmed life to say remarkably little. Not sounding typical? Welcome to “The Tender Bar,” a coming-of-age film based on a real life that doesn’t feel entirely real. The barflies somehow know when the Magna Carta was signed - 1215, silly! - and will line up to buy you a round of gin martinis if you get into Yale.
There are books everywhere, a group of sweet, lovable locals and a bartender who is a good soul with a tough exterior. If you’re ever thirsty on Long Island, look for a dive bar called The Dickens.
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