Why Writing Movie Scripts?

The recent answer is because it’s part of my lifestyle now. I took film studies in Toronto about twenty years ago and wrote fiction scripts for two semesters’ worth of homework. Life brought me to Los Angeles and I hoped to continuing the film studies and turning the plate on engineering, my day job. But Read More …

SCRIPT WRITING JOURNEY: YEAR 1191. VALVOLINO TRAVELS TO THE REALM OF THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION

Baudolino adaptation  expectedly starts with re-reading the book twice, the first time to validate the trilogy assumption, the second to color mark the pages for action, dialogue and whatever I anticipate to show as dreams and flash-backs. The dreams are necessary to highlight motivation, the flash-backs to avoid interrupting scenes that have to be in Read More …

SCRIPT WRITING JOURNEY: YEAR 1645. VALVOLINO JOINS THE QUEST FOR THE LONGITUDE METHOD

Two years after reading The Island of the Day Before for the first time, I started reading it again to select the script scenes; I was finally embarking on the journey of writing the adaptation. The “visions” re-merged and I was turning them into the legacy elements of a movie script. The initial idea was Read More …

SCRIPT WRITING JOURNEY: YEAR 2065. VALVOLINO DISCOVERS THE SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

More than ten years ago I’ve discovered Tom Robbins’ books and most of them triggered fun “visions”, so full of awkward situations and fantasies. Only after the recent trilogy idea, I had embarked on writing the “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates” movie adaptation; it seemed to fall in line with the progression of the Read More …