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Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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How 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

I suppose all those subtitle sites aren't exactly legal either, but I don't see them going anywhere.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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A treasure trove, especially if it sticks around.

I like reading screenplays (and "regular" plays) because you have to imagine the "look and feel" of almost everything. It really exercises the visual imagination. If you have seen the movie, or play, you might remember much of it, but you'll have to make up a bunch of stuff too, or you might find your imagination going in some other direction -- but the story is still there, carrying you along.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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post #41
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I suppose all those subtitle sites aren't exactly legal either, but I don't see them going anywhere.

Subtitles can be auto-generated. Screenplays, not really.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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I've been looking for something like this because sometimes it's hard to verify movie and TV quotes unless they are already very famous.

If all that is desired is the spoken text, most subtitle sites have fairly accurate copies of the official subtitles or even better than original subtitles for stuff that is very popular. For instance sometimes I see homophones for the correct words or abbreviated text versions for rapidly spoken speech even in the official subtitles for streaming shows. Websites like subscene.com and opensubtitles.org are pretty active.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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Not sure of the sources for this site but FYI; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) has a screenplay library (they collect internationally and like to get different versions of them, from initial drafts to shooting scripts), there are also libraries that collect screenplays that are affiliated with other film or TV academies (and internationally) or film schools. Screenplays are also often given considerable distribution during awards season, even posted on special "for your consideration" websites that the film production companies setup each year.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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This 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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Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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post #35

I've been looking for something like this because sometimes it's hard to verify movie and TV quotes unless they are already very famous.

If all that is desired is the spoken text, most subtitle sites have fairly accurate copies of the official subtitles or even better than original subtitles for stuff that is very popular. For instance sometimes I see homophones for the correct words or abbreviated text versions for rapidly spoken speech even in the official subtitles for streaming shows. Websites like subscene.com and opensubtitles.org are pretty act…

Plus it's very common that the final line spoken in a film is not the line that was in the screenplay. Stuff changes, people ad lib.

Re: Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

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post #34

Any guide on how to read a screenplay? Something that explains the 3a 3b etc on the right

Numbers on the right are production-specific, but you can generally figure out that it's some combination of page number, scene number, and act numbers -- often with new pages inserted without reordering later ones, so 3B sometimes might mean the page between 3 and 4.

Asterisks on the right side indicate lines added/changed since the previous revision. Big blank spaces indicate where lines have been taken away.

This complicated system is because pages are constantly being replaced/inserted and distributed as they're rewritten, without re-printing the entire script -- not just to save paper, but because people are writing personal notes/highlights/etc. on pages and you don't want to lose those.

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