Film scripts: why are they not as widely sold and read as plays are? Have you ever read a script, what did you think of it compared to play or regular narrative? Are there any movie scripts you'd like to own and have on your bookshelf?
Plays are mostly sold and read because people perform them, need to get a copy of the play and read it if you want to perform it. Buying a copy of a play also gives you the right to perform the play, this is not so with movies.
>>25252730Scripts are not meant to be read. Novels are better for reading because they have actual tone and visual cues and literary devices.
>>25252730dont know about now, but back in the day downtown nyc dudes has scripts printed and bound and sold them on the streets.
>>25252730A script is a blueprint for making a film; there's no reason to read one when you can just watch the movie unless you have a special interest. I've read a few more than a few screenplays and I wouldn't recommend the experience to anyone without an interest in screenwriting. Just watch the movie. Plays are different because their productions are meant to be transient, so the language itself is the only immortal aspect history can hold onto.
>>25252795Oh man, I remember that, I regret not buying some of those when I had the chance
>>25252819yeah, wasnt my bag but i remember thinking it was pretty cool/niche
>>25252823Come to think of it, I was recently out of diapers and not yet into filmmaking at the time, so it wasn't my bag either
>>25252730They're just not that good. Cormac McCarthy tried his luck with a few, read them and FUCK OFF
>>25252730they’re like eating an ingredient from a recipe rather than having the finished producta script is not a final product
>>25252730A few weeks ago I read Lynch's Ronnie Rocket script that he never got to film. Pretty neat if you're a fan, might elucidate some of his personal beliefs. You can get the pdf by googling
>>25252730if cameras had existed in athens, aristophanes the clouds would be a movie
>>25252817>Plays are different because their productions are meant to be transient,the world will never remember what specifics of what actors caused what decisions in the shakespeare versions aka bad versions, or whether even they were performed as written. as to who was in aristophanes acting company
>>25252730films are more about the visuals than live theatre is
The answer is that movies are easily gotten and seen.>>25253515This is wrong.
>>25252730Reading a play is utterly fucking retarded unless you're doing some analysis of it and need a reference. A play is meant to be watched, reading a play is like trying to enjoying a dessert by reading the recipe instead of fucking eating it like a normal human. Completely fucking stupid.
>>25253465>Pretty neat if you're a fan, might elucidate some of his personal beliefs.What beliefs? He was a libtard obsessed with meditating. That's it.
>>25252730The reason scripts are interesting is because of the translation/transference.Because you can look at something that 100 other people were looking at to make something much bigger.Because you can look at the direct reference which was written by only one or two people and get both the pure intention of the creator and the mutated form filtered through others.It's not the same as a novel adaptation because the script is being written for the express purpose of translating to video which heavily alters the way it has to be written and that intention itself changes how it is written.
>>25252790Most books don't have tone for shit because text is terrible for conveying it. The other things you listed, sure.
>>25254477>t. functionally literate illiterate
