27 Dialogue Mistakes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this Film Courage video we discuss various insights and advice about writing effective dialogue for screenplays. We emphasize the importance of purposeful conversation, character intentions, subtext, and contrast in dialogue. This compilation highlights how dialogue should drive the story forward, showcasing individual voices, and avoiding on-the-nose explanations. Additionally, it touches on the humorous aspect of language and cultural differences.
0) 0:00 - Intro - Bill Duke, David Jay Willis, Karl Iglesias
1) 0:14 - Great Dialogue... And Not So Great - Jeffrey Davis and Peter Desberg
2) 0:43 - Not Connected To The Character's Desire Line - Karl Iglesias
3) 1:37 - Not Knowing What The Characters Want - Daniel Calvisi
4) 2:12 - Dialogue Is A Strategy - Karl Iglesias
5) 2:48 - It's Not What The Characters Would Really Say - Erik Bork
6) 3:17 - What Is The Character Hiding? - Christine Conradt
7) 3:51 - Sometimes It's What's Not Said - Scott Myers
8) 4:11 - The Best Dialogue Has Subtext - Erik Bork
9) 4:40 - No Action Behind The Dialogue - Paul Joseph Gulino
10) 5:54 - Using Dialogue Instead Of Action - Shannan E. Johnson
11) 6:34 - Q&A Dialogue - Paul Joseph Gulino
12) 6:46 - Too Much Explanation - Christine Conradt
13) 7:12 - On The Nose Dialogue - Daniel Calvisi, Shannan E. Johnson, Paul Joseph Gulino
14) 8:04 - The Dialogue Is Not Playable - Jeffrey Davis and Peter Desberg
15) 8:35 - Talk But No Dialogue - Paul Joseph Gulino
16) 8:55 - Conversation With A Purpose - Scott Myers
17) 9:47 - Each Line Of Dialogue Matters - Paul Joseph Gulino, Daniel Calvisi
18) 10:46 - Too Much Dialogue - Kenneth Castillo, Karl Iglesias
19) 11:18 - Too Many Long Monologues - Daniel Calvisi
20) 12:44 - Read Your Dialogue Out Loud - Jeffrey Davis and Peter Desberg
21) 13:17 - Spend More Time Listening - Shane Stanley, Daniel Calvisi
22) 15:14 - Using Words That Don't Fit The Characters - Shane Stanley, Shannan E. Johnson
23) 15:52 - Every Character Sounds The Same - Christine Conradt
24) 16:03 - No Contrast Between Characters - Karl Iglesias
25) 16:49 - Right Dialogue, Wrong Character - Frank Dietz
26) 16:55 - Where's The Irony - Paul Joseph Gulino
27) 17:18 - A Parting Shot - Matthew Kalil
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more of these compilation style videos please!!!
Cheers Kendrick! Here are a few more - tinyurl.com/344wxtyc
- the best dialogue has subtext
- the best dialogue is what's not said
man how does this channel keep pumping out content so consistently... like how do you'll maintain the quality and consistency
Always loved that interview with Mark Hamill when he first read "the Star Wars " script..he questioned "who talks like this?"..
“But I wanted to go to Toshi station to pick up some power converters”
Absolutely fantastic video, one of the best I've seen on this channel. Can't wait to spend the next 2 weeks reworking all the dialogue in my book!
Love that you are going to put this video to work!
I write fiction novellas, but I'm really aware of the dialogue. I want the characters to sound like real people talking (as much as I can) - even though literary dialogue is different than every day speech.
Think Aaron Sorkin. Write what you feel, not what someone wants.
When painting, if you want blue to pop, use a hint of yellow surrounding it rather than vivid yellow, which will just create a noisy and cartoony mise en scene.
I LOVE THESE COMPILATIONS! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! :D
Cheers Vera!
Great compilation. Thank you so much for making this.
Thank you for watching!
Here’s a tip that many don’t know.
Watch a movie scene either good or bad and as you’re watching it write down the dialogue and read it to see if it sounds natural or not.
I finally could watch (and listen to) this video! Glad I did, it's great to understand what seems to work and the mistake examples! I try to get characters to be them when writing them and their dialogue...still having my own self-doubts with the bolder characters, but I gulp in and have them live over me. I'm getting there with it! :D
Great refresher!! 🙏
great compilation! thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great compilation and great subject to focus on. Thanks
Much appreciated!
I love finding new ways to make my characters more interesting and humane!
The best dialogue having subtext is a great tip. When I've written about characters and scenes, I haven't written much subtext into my writing. I need to go back to see if I can change things up and add subtext.
Good editing, very informative ❤❤
Bravo. Right now, I struggle giving my characters individual voicing. This helps. I'll review it with pen & paper. I would love for you to ask Jack Grapes the same questions.😮
Thanks for this!
You got it!
What is one of your favorite lines of dialogue?
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
--Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
--and every other line of dialogue from Firefly and Serenity.
You know you done effed up😂
Hope you enjoyed this intro!
"A man's gotta know his limitations" the outlaw Josey wales
'Of all the gin joints, in all the towns in all the world, She walks into mine' (Casablanca, 1942).
"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
What movie or TV show has your favorite dialogue?
Andor, and Ted Lasso.
The Breakfast Club
Col Trautman's intro in 'Rambo' the perfect exposition and it's terrifying.
'Serenity' is poetry!
'V for Vendetta' is modern Shakespeare.
Justified has some pretty slick dialogue. Also grand Budapest Hotel
Legally Blonde and Coronation Street (long running english soap)
Thank you!
Cheers!
Lots of smart people saying smart things. But per the thumbnail probly one of the greatest lines of dialogue ever put to paper was….Oh Hi, Mark. Brilliant! 😂
This is really helpful
Love to hear it!
Great
Which of these mistakes is most helpful to you?
It's a combo: the concepts that a character always wants something, and they *give* something, too, when they're communicating what they want. If these things aren't being shown at least subtextually, there's no forward momentum.
Brilliant compilation, by the way.
Exposition is always my challenge and figuring out how to give backstory effectively. I'm writing a play and it's a historically factual one and so I keep wrestling with what I want to add as "educational" value.
But my biggest tip as SIMPLE as it seems was the "don't use the Q&A approach" and the example of how to inject interest and emotion without the direct lame "how are you?" Brilliant and helpful EXAMPLE of how to fix those spots.
Thank you
Just what I need. ❤
Cheers! Hope this helps!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Whenever I'm writing scripts I read my lines outloud and if they don't sound realistic to how a person would say them I rewrite them until they sound correct
Excelsior!
Love the Charlie Sheen advice!
Totally agree. Listen. At a party, paan shop, cafe, markets, wherever.
Only downside to this clip is the video editor doesn't keep straight whether for the title cards they're naming the writing mistake, or naming the correct way to go about it.
Hi Karen, For speaker 10, shouldn't the title be Using Action instead of Dialogue? Thanks for making this awesome compilation! (:
Yeah, that one may be a bit confusing. Basically it is reinforcing Show Don't Tell. There are times when it is a mistake to use dialogue instead of action.
Right, that's what I understood, but I suddenly thought of the title as a tip and not a mistake, all good! thanks for your reply! @@filmcourage
Replace the Hollywood sign with a giant screen and play on loop with massive speakers. Thanks.
Great dialogue is like human interaction in the sense that it flows like conversation. The response to what someone says has to feel like something someone would say. The structure of good dialogue has to fit narrative form. It should do away with pauses, ticks and filler.
Want to read and hear great dialogue? Watch and read the movie Fury. David Ayer is a master at showing 5 different characters speaking differently and every single thing they talk about in this vodeo
As long as we don't see that Chris Gore guy. We are learning something.
Meanwhile in Lucky Star school girls discussing for minutes from which side they should eat chocolate cornet. Breaking every single of those 27 rules, except for, maybe, 22.
I'm just going to say: Thank you.
Great! Hope this helps!
@@filmcourage This channel is a gold mine.
Always check the IMDB to see what someone's worked on when they give advice as well. Also, take advice from someone who's old as a dinosaur with a very good resume.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I started watching a video on writing (can't quite remember the topic) and she starts off by saying, "I'm an aspiring writer hoping to get published." Or something like that, and I thought, 'There may be a reason other than she just started writing as to why she's not published.' Either way, not someone I necessarily want to take advice about writing from.
What if engaging dialogue is the source of the conflict? Why must conflict be overacted in Hollywood movies. I hear so many boundaries from the experts but I've seen so many deliveries of bad dialogue.
Oh hi vid photo. 😮
02:25
Ultimately the lesson we want to remember.
The last tip is why Weeds’s finale was a failure.
But in the same time more than 80% from the audiences doesn't follow the dialog more than the sean