OP, this is amazing. Will be using this heavily. What are your plans for the future?
Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows
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#12This is amazing. Anyone that has written a script, what is the significance of words in all caps? Breaking Bad: Oh, by the way, he’s wearing a GAS MASK. That, and white jockey UNDERPANTS. Nothing else. The Dark Knight: A man in a CLOWN MASK holding a SMOKING SILENCED PISTOL ejects a shell casing. This is DOPEY. He turns to a second man, HAPPY, also in clown mask, who steps forward with a CABLE LAUNCHER, aims at a low…
Highlighting people/props the first time they appear and/or if they should be especially prominent, and key actions.
E.g. notice how in the second example Dopey is only all-caps the first time, not when he is mentioned again 2 sentences later. And "FIRES" is highlighted, but "ejects", "turns to" are not.
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#13I just want to know why they're all written in the most horrible typewriter-style font. They're written on computers now, right? So why not use a font that's easier on the eyes?
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#14How does one get a copy of a screenplay in the first place?
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#15Those are not final screenplays, apparently. They may be early versions before the final ones, judging from the first one for Breaking Bad
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#16This is amazing. Anyone that has written a script, what is the significance of words in all caps? Breaking Bad: Oh, by the way, he’s wearing a GAS MASK. That, and white jockey UNDERPANTS. Nothing else. The Dark Knight: A man in a CLOWN MASK holding a SMOKING SILENCED PISTOL ejects a shell casing. This is DOPEY. He turns to a second man, HAPPY, also in clown mask, who steps forward with a CABLE LAUNCHER, aims at a low…
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#17I just want to know why they're all written in the most horrible typewriter-style font. They're written on computers now, right? So why not use a font that's easier on the eyes?
It’s a thing. Screenplays started in old Hollywood, pre-Depression era, when typewriters had mono space courier font. It stuck.
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#18Countdown to a stable diffusion model trained on screenplay + video pairs.
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#19How is this legal?
It's not:
> No portion of this script may be performed, or reproduced by any means, or quoted, or published in any medium without prior written consent of SONY PICTURES TELEVISION INC. * 10202 West Washington Boulevard * Culver City, CA 90232
Cease & Desist Notice coming in 3...2...1
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#20I just want to know why they're all written in the most horrible typewriter-style font. They're written on computers now, right? So why not use a font that's easier on the eyes?
I believe they use a font that works well for time. So each page covers approximately the same amount of screen time.
Probably a bit of tradition there too.