SHELDON TURNER Screenwriting Lesson

[deutschland08fn]

This dude is a breath of fresh air.

[proverbs97]

"every cliche in the human lexicon" ......that's funny

[mep41376]

This guy is honest and direct.

[Byrle6781]

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[MarsenPaerson]

He´s motivated by guilt, fear and anger. Sad. I highly doubt he has anything meaningful to say with his stories.

[jsosaite]

well make 2 lines of turbo coke.......lmao

[Torcika]

26204 people want to be screenwriters

[garrettmyreel]

Telling it like it is.

[ncrb73]

I disagree with the people who don't find this guy very informative. This guy is bright, quick and speaks very openly.

[shabirdxoxo]

Nice. Who is he? Check your stats! He's setting up projects all over town!! The guy is insanely talented!!!!

[knutsensen]

What,a douche.

[nac98765]

Who the fuck is this guy. Writer of the Longest Yard, yea DONT TAKE HIS ADVICE. His movie was shit. Everything he is saying is shit. He's not a writer hes a tool.

Anyone who tells you to not write about things meaningful to you is wrong. Because if you write about things you don't know about your scripts are inauthentic and you'll end up a douche bag on youtube.

[viper516]

Five newspapers, a script, and two hours of working out each day, plus a book a week, and daily business affairs, and he still churns out quality scripts? This guy must be brilliant.

[roninfilmer]

Reading a bunch of screenplays is only useful if you are aware of the concepts and structural devices before you scan the words on the screenplay , so you can know what tools are being used and then rate how good they are being used. Without knowing the concepts before hand , the exercises of reading screenplays collapses into a false learning practice that yields at max a familiarity with the emotional effects of the devices (causes) being used in the script. Then you at best (emulate)

[skydark]

@roninfilmer Or maybe you'll get a really good feel on what works to elicits a vivid image to the mind of the reader and the transfer between what's on the page and what happens on screen.

As for structural narrative devices, you can see(and identify) those just as easily in a movie as you can in a screenplay: it may even be easier.

Too much rigidity in what you learn, and what you perceive to be "the correct way of writing", can only lead to weak, confined writing.

[BUDDY6414724297]

We have rewarded people of average abilities while destroying those who are brilliant and moral(Socrates). And as a result we have people of average abilities getting plays produced while brilliant writers find themselves outcasts and blacklisted. We've lost values like reading the classics and hard work. So as a result the number of great writers out their you could fit onto a short bus.

[smell0my0nipples]

what script did he sell for 3 million to sony?

[shaunachmad]

@smell0my0nipples he didn't he said he read one that was sold to sony for $3mill

[simplyshama]

From what he has said I think that I'm born to be a writer YAYY :)

[DrMBA28]

Is the pos $3M script he's referring to "Basic Instincts"?

[sraptv]

I love teachers who talk 'fast & smart' it's most helpful!

[ImDrunkOnBaileys]

just clicked on the (92) Video playlist, note pad in hand, filled up on coffee. LET'S FUCKING DO THIS!!!! >:-o

[epistades1]

he's no David Benioff, but i did enjoy "Up in the Air".

[ddd1600]

I do not like this guy.

[booty1983]

Make it simple, don't think about it, smash down the keys on the keyboard, the audience won't know the difference! I've seen the re-make of "The Longest Yard," it sucked. It lacked... I don't know, depth, intellegence. It was another stupid Adam Sandler movie. This guy should write for 2000 versions of Zucker rip-offs, if he hasn't already. Fucking dipshit opportunist. Make another movie that doesn't stimulate the intellegence of the fucking consumer... yeah, that's what makes a good movie!

[christpunchers]

You can write the best stories, but no one will ever bother to read it or have the guts to make it work. Might as well have monkeys tied with typewriters these days.

[UTAOUB]

Thanks for this video! Very honest & refreshing! (If Mr. Turner wants to be an actor someday, he could easily play Spock's brother, I think!)

[mysticpamela]

When I obsess on something I'm writing, I get music stuck in my head that energizes the story somehow. I have to hear it constantly while I'm working, I gaze off into the distance and go completely away for a while, then plunge in and write 20 or more pages...

[juleswinns]

what's the worst screenplay ever written?

[astrologysongs]

Good stuff, Thank you

 ...from HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITER -the song.

[ZachClooney]

Congratulations to Sheldon on winning the BAFTA for 'Up In The Air' 2 days ago. Wish you all the best for the Oscars. Sheldon and Jason Reitman came up with a superb adaptation of Walter Kern's novel.

[ZachClooney]

@ZachClooney And Sheldon is giving fantastic advice.

[sidsvids]

@TheSmokingNug>>>propaganda film? whaaa? that was one of the best films of the year!!! It doesn't say one thing or another..if you recall (i know he wont read this) at the end of the film...the "alone" character's voice over he says " one of those lights slightly BRIGHTER than the rest, will be passing over"..meaning no matter what you chose in life its your own fate..and with it comes sacrifice..be it your dream w/out family or family w/out dreams or both...

[TheSmokingNug]

this guy worked on the propaganda film, 'up in the air', which told people to love your pursecutor and you only have value if you have a family and are married and being alone is the worse thing possible and it causes you to think and thinkings bad so find someone even if you dont love them. i saw right through your piece of crap movie sheldon turner, how much did they pay you to sell your soul? or did you justify it by saying that it will keep the proles from getting acting up.

[Super8StrikesBack]

Wtf??

[ChrisK513]

it was based off of a book, douche bag.

[juleswinns]

I'm with you dude.

[robhoski]

Sounds like a lawyer. Gotta be good in a room? Gotta be a social animal? Come on. Read a script a day? Wake up at 3:57? Slow down on the triple espressos maybe.

[DrMBA28]

Everything he said is true. Plus, these are things you do when you're passionate about something - especially as competitive as screenwriting.

[pucksprite81]

Amy Pascal wouldn't want to hear that a script has themes??? Ugh, Hollywood has become so backwards and antithetical to the whole art of writing. Thank goodness that broadband internet will soon topple the revival of the Hollywood Studio system, and cut out the Hollywood middlemen (and women).

[ZachClooney]

Great advice.

[Gettinghitonattheban]

He just is another formulaic copy and paster who continues to stain the art of screenwriting.

[ekimgiles]

Rats! I tried to click on the start play button and hit the one star rating. I didn't mean it! I promise no more multi tasking. This guy is good.

[roscorg]

This guy knows his shit

[83king]

utter p o s like 5 times

[kindofcorebutnot]

This guy seems really cool, I want his discipline.

[helloimmatt2]

this guy speaks truth.

[knowledgetooth]

Good look dialouge. I'm subscribing... And to Sheldon... That's game baby!

[Spike2709]

RE: Writing what you know. That's often taken as 'write from what you've DONE'. I take it as 'write from your perspective'.

Every person has a unique perspective on every event. So write your screenplay from that perspective. How do you feel about it?

You can't write about vampires from 'what you know', only from your own perspective.

[TheRealBladeRunner]

Sheldon Turner says he doesn't like to write about what he knows.

But Ricky Gervais does like to write about what he knows, Gervais says this in his Inside The Actors Studio interview on You Tube.

Discuss....

[DrMBA28]

I think his point is that 1) he doesn't ONLY write about what he knows and 2) to be careful of writing about what you know, making sure that you can be objective and underscore the importance of the incident to a third-party (not just to you)

[TheRealBladeRunner]

Yes I'd agree with that.

But the difficulty is when deciding on if you think the audience will like your screenplay -- every line of dialogue and action -- as well as the entire story.

[TheRealBladeRunner]

A script a month!!! WTF!

I haven't even finished one in almost five years. Fucking hell. I thought I was improving as well.

Well done Sheldon Turner...

Keep on talking...

[TheRealBladeRunner]

And writing!*

[woobie90]

This is awsome!! I always go around saying "oh my god, I think i scitsafrenic", but maybe i'm just an amazing writer. :)

[6kyjutwas]

Scizophrenic

[woobie90]

Oh yeah. Sorry. I guess spelling and grammer are not some of my strongest points......(writing wise). Oh well i'm only human.

[worldpc]

hey woobie90 here's some advise if you want to be a writer.... proof read everything you write, even dumb comments on YouTube.

P.S. Grammar isn't spelled (Grammer) ;-)

[woobie90]

i missed the part where i cared about what u think. if i took the time to proof read the comments i made online i would be there forever. so like i said im only human. no one is perfect. i sure as hell do not let anything i write screenplay wise have mistakes like that.

[TwoTowersTruther]

advice*

u peece o shitt aregant phuck

[worldpc]

Translation for TwoTowersTruther comment.

You piece of shit arrogant fuck!

Woobie90 needs to proof read, but TwoTowersTruther needs to take its dumb ass back to school!

Here is the translation so that TwoTowersTruther can understand what I just wrote:

Woobie90 kan't spell shit but TwoTowersTruther gotta take its dumbazz back two skool!

[Spike2709]

Schizophrenic

[DrMBA28]

Thanks for posting! I also think that writers are born. Courses can help you fine tune your skills but can't turn a bad writer into a good one. Not that all developed scripts are written by great writers...

[ninthgust]

What a defined person

He knows who he is and he is such and extremist.

Whether you like his personality or not, YOU know what it is and HE knows what it is.

[fluffymcflufferson7]

What an interesting guy!!! I don't care if he has done a line of coke like other people commented: he is incredibly witty

[doggiestyle247]

I agreed with you. out all the screen lesson clips i watch. this guy is the most genuine one. he tells it how it is. and hes not tryin to sound cool or anything.

[OldMcEyeballs]

His first screenplay was an utter piece of shit he says. Well, how about his screenplays for "The Longest Yard" or "Texas Chainsaw: The Beginning"? Are those classics of cinema?

What a phony baloney. Look Sheldon, the movie world would be better if you became a lawyer.

[PeterDaScriptGuy]

hahahaha ya, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is by far the worst movie of all time.

[St4rdog]

What age is this guy?

[killuminati43]

wow the amount of works in production is crazy.

[SharkHillz]

..must've done a line or two before this interview.

[te22a]

I don't think he drew breath through that interview... ONCE!

[Erdles]

Either he's very quick-witted, or he's just done a line of coke.

Odds on both?

[thoostorm4]

@Erdles OK YOUSHOULDGO INTO WRITING COMEDYI AM SERIOUS

[thunder1276]

@Erdles its just the way its edited that makes it seem quick

[Handmedownanupper]

Sheldon's the man.

[notmarcofilms]

this guy seems like he is insane.

[dubnobasswithmahead]

This guy speaks my language. Taking courses isn't an option for me so reading whatever I can get a hold of makes sense.

Hell yeah.

[JonathansGurl91]

Cool interview but I cannot agree with Screenwriter's are born.

[solskjore]

Lost in Translation is a racist American white bitch fantasy.

AND I dont even like the Japanese

[polaroidruletheworld]

well you have prejudices

so there you

[L8agin]

He reminds me of Kevin Spacey.

[JustAddWater69]

This guy has logic.

[rzoro06]

This guy gives a good interview

[RJJohnsonInLA]

Xxxlut, that really sounded Freudian, dude.

[RJJohnsonInLA]

Xxxlut, that is all so Freudian, dude!

[crazycoolone]

Yeah, I'm schizophrenic which make me a hell of a writer. I was born this way & with a south paw. Great piece!

[chosen11979]

Ooooh, he wrote a remake to a movie that didn't need to be remade. Jesus fuck, the only reason that shit sold was because Adam agreed to do it.

[zachromero]

I like this guy.

[Xxxlut]

Yeah?

Well, YOU'RE an asshole!

You want a piece of me?

Come. Try.