A Film Legend's Secret to Intelligent Storytelling
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Breaking down a powerful piece of filmmaking & screenwriting advice from Oscar-winning director / screenwriter Billy Wilder, with examples.
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00:00 Billy's Tip
00:30 Credentials
00:45 Examples from Minari
02:50 The Audience As Collaborator
03:58 Example From My Film (too clear)
04:45 Example From My Film (doing it right)
06:17 Example From My Film (too vague)
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I've been making short films for 20 years, starting at age 11. I directed my first feature film, Bad is Bad, in 2010. Made for only $6,000, the film went on to reach over 7 million views and garner critical acclaim. More recently, my short film, Will "The Machine", screened and won awards at film festivals around the world. Released online in 2019, it reached over 1 million views in just a month. I also work as a video editor, cutting ads for clients such as Apple, Netflix, and Beats by Dre.
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Most other writing gurus on TH-cam give examples from their own work of how to do things well and they all show examples of what the big studios have done well but you are the first that I have seen to give examples from your own work of how NOT to do things. Bravo for having humility while giving great advice!
totally agree
I agree too- it’s really helpful and useful
The only way to grow and become better filmmakers is to learn from our MISTAKES. Your honesty and humility speak volumes of your creative and artistic integrity. Cheers.
Really great advice. I'm always trying to write questions for the audience to ask in every scene.
I'm so appreciative of you "airing your dirty laundry" as it were, for people like me who are trying to learn what NOT to do as well as what we ought to attempt. You've clearly nailed a particular craft of film-making by way of instructional videos anyway
Great advices. The last ending didn’t work because the audience expected the character to change and finally redeem (ironically already dead which was brilliant) executing something right. Major disappointment and misreading of what was more important for the story, but its great that you’ve learned from it.
Writing is everything
Dude your videos are underrated af thanks for all the advice!!
Minari is an absolutely beautiful film, glad you talked about it !
The Accountant does it - repeated viewings reveal the beautiful integrity of the script. I was mesmerized. I wondered, how long did it take scriptwriter Bill Dubuque to put it all together. Did he have a stack of cards in the file for years, or did he pull it together in less than a year? I was still finding those small, understated connections the third and fourth times I watched it.
thanks for the transparency of using your own work as examples!
From Dusk Till Dawn.
Without watching your movie Bad Is Bad, I can say a lot of your movie came from it. Most especially the characters.
Straight up, just an amazing video essay. Good job. You earned my subscription. Well have to interview you at some point way down the road once my business gets bigger.
This was a great video :) and it reminds me of Norm Macdonald. I didn't find him funny at first, but then I realized that his comedic style put a lot of trust in my ability to understand the joke. He also found situational humour really funny, like when Norm told a five minute joke about a moth on Conan. The idea of someone telling a five minute joke on national TV about a moth flying into a clinic because "The light was on" is hilarious. RIP Norm you story telling son of a gun.
Came here because I loved minari and recognised the thumbnail. Was not disappointed
I love lessons like this.. it really helps open my eyes to examples of this in the different media I consume. I've even been able to share it with another writer who had a scene where 2+2 helped cleanup some unnecessary exposition they had.
Love your videos man👊
The way you explain things is absolutely perfect not to mention the fact that your humble enough and self aware enough to use yourself as an example. It’s my goal to do the same things in my videos and thank you for the inspiration, motivation and all around helping out all of us small time video makers.✌️
Awesome! Very helpful!
These are really useful tips. Please make a video on how to write effective horror.
I came across realizing this yesterday when I watched spectral on Netflix. Some point in the story I go, oh I know what it is. Very cool to have that and it gets you invested in the movie as a movie watcher.
I can't believe you explained your short movie mistakes instead of talking about the topic 👍
Good advice bro and minari is a good example 👌👌👏
John wicki has made many people speculate on whats the value of the coin, the relationship between wicki and winston etc. Some think Winston is the father of John wickis wife the list goes on
Incredible video
Wow Bad is Bad looks awesome I'll have to watch it. A lot of the time when people say 'Here's a positive example from my writing' its cringe because they're better at giving writing advice than they are at writing but that was actually great writing (and performances etc.).
It’s simple human satisfaction of figuring something out. Even to people that dont like puzzles, when they figure out a puzzle that’s been given to them, there’s this sense of joy and accomplishment. The same joy and accomplishment that we feel as kids when we get that math problem we’ve been working at. It’s powerful.
A good setup for the tap recorder reveal would have been to have something like him misplacing his keys or forgetting to do something
Great video! You can show them 2+2=4 but you have to be careful with it. For example, in Everything Everywhere All At Once, we get a glimpse of the hot dog hands universe.
By then, we know that universe hopping can lead to strange outcomes and we *could* know that this is probably a universe in which people evolved differently. We don't really need hand holding but the writers decide to show it too.
We hard cut to a scene a couple hundred thousand years ago within that universe where a hot dog handed great ape descendant kills the last surviving normal handed ancestor of people with normal hands.
It's silly and probably redundant but it serves to give the audience a tiny break. The movie is moving fast and a 20 second comedic break that connects the obvious dots is a great touch in that specific moment in the story. It's a buffer that pulls you out for a second without ruining the momentum of the story.
As always with film making, there are really no rules. If your foundation is solid and your vision is perfected, you *can* sprinkle a few 2+2=4s as buffers.
Maybe for comic purposes the rule is different as there is a need to be redundant with your joke (comedy comes in three, they say)
Hey brother i love your videos As a beginner I got my lumix G9 But dont know how to colourgrade my footage can you provide me some luts 😊
I got g7 bro😄 i also wanna make some movies
where can I see your short films?
Very well done but popular examples, even one helps quickly IMO...haven't seen Minari...
I agree with how this is great for Horror, yet almost every horror film after its initial hit, use the sequels to explain/answer questions built in the original/first film which is stupid to me like the Alien franchise. The first two are great, but them explaining Engineers etc is NOT why I watched Alien/s and are ruining the franchise trying to answer everything aka appease fan service.
did you get the idea in bad is bad with the character who fixates on the girls from dusk till dawn (movie)?
Is the actor playing Jesse the Paint Coach?
Thanks
Thank you!
You & your girl will dig The Green Knight, GAIA, & Everything, Everywhere All at Once. See them all! Also peep the movies Thale, Men&Chicken, and Wrong(by Quentin Dupieux) They are all "recent" masterpieces.. I demand you see them, they'll change your life!
Not me writing the journal thing in my next short film
Maybe the empty recorder would have been better shown after the person was murdered. Instead of showing it in the beginning. As people are learning about the character they will wonder will be get it right.
There is a TH-cam Video for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Ending Theme" | Let You Down that does an insane job at doing this.. In < 5 min you meet.. care about.. cheer on and mourn a character you've never seen before without a single line of dialog.
Will check that out, I loved Edgerunners
@@StandardStoryCo I've watched it so many times now trying to figure out the tricks they use to evoke our emotions or make things more easier to ingest in such a short amount of time. My favorites so far are the eye transition to show you that the older main character is the younger daughter and the dance sequence where she has tears at the very end which they focus on. There are always different interpretations but this makes me think of someone who is out partying all the time and having what would normally be considered a fun life.. but at the end of the day she's still carrying around the emotional trauma from her youth.
"Give your audience 2 and 2"
(Meanwhile)
Star Wars Fanbase: If you don't explain to me in excruciating detail how Palpatine revived himself, I *swear to God-*
J.J. Abrams: Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
Star Wars Fanbase: *cocks pistol* STEP BY STEP
Earlier drafts of the movie spent the entire first half building up to the reveal of Palpatine's return, it's a real shame they didn't at least go with that.
@ashy I think I have something of a counterargument: how would Poe really know? It seems like the answer, as far as he's concerned, is quite literally "somehow". I certainly wouldn't prefer "due to a combination of Sith magic and Force manipulation taught by his late master Darth Plagueis, Palpatine has returned from the dead." There are a lot of things to complain about regarding TRoS, of course; I just don't buy this one at all.
The best examples for horror are GAIA, Antichrist, & Martyrs.
Consider parasite as movie example the famous has literally everything to talk about
Do you realise how much is your Bad is Bad character similar to Quentin Tarantino's character in Dusk Till Dawn?
Got it, confuse the audience with vagueness
Your sarcasm 😅
Regarding the tape: those tape decks won't let you engage the 'Record' function unless there's a tape in the thing. So he could never have turned it to 'Record' empty. So besides losing your audience, you also lost all the audio engineers and mean old farts.
Wait a min He is saying that "In my 20 years of filmmaking " and few month ago he said that how I landed as a editor in netflix?? With in 3 months
Yes he’s been making shorts and features for decades but became a freelance editor for
Client work at one point and went from non-commercial to working editor (on clients work) within 3 months.
So - don’t we see the whole Ray storyline? Or did my brain say rape bc of the zipper?
20 years of filmmaking? You started when? Like with 5?
Is Ray’s acne real?
unpopular opinion. The Shining is one of the most overrated and boring azz films.
This is not how I understand the concept.
I can't believe it lol "hey, that guy looks hella familiar" its Chris Fornataro and I've been watching his oil painting youtube channel for over a year.