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Written by
Allal El alaoui
Rabat/Salé
Self-revelation could happen at
the right moment of the beginning of any film and it does at the end too.I know this through
torturing myself, with love of course ,to watch a lot of movies .I also know this from Trubynizing and Mckeenizing myself out of reading their
books , Story of RobertMckee and the Anatomy of Story by John Truby.
books , Story of RobertMckee and the Anatomy of Story by John Truby.
Surely, Story by McKee is a wonderful
screenwriting book that teaches me a lot .This is the truth .Yet, Truby’s the Anatomy
of The Story, speaks to my soul directly as The magical stories of One Thousand and One Nights do.
Apparently, Truby’s has caught my
“ Inside out ". I struggle everyday to write a draft that uses the Chapter 8/4
of the Anatomy of The Story which I find more appealing and more convincing in
structure writing .
“Comment faire ? “ . This is a
continuous dilemma of mind as it is to my character. How to start ? Bloody Hell
. Writing character or create plot.Character is plot and plot is character.The
trick to formulate the three- act structure hurts me and it is a pain in the ass. May be I could break the
rules and write five or more acts the same thing as Quentin Taratino does.
As a matter of fact , simplicity
prevails .I should write the thing from my Inside out, from my self experiences
, my self- revelation .In psychology, Man has female and male characteristics . i mean , my protagonist and
antagonist side.This is how i see it . Again , I go back to Truby’s in order to speak to my soul
, because I am a human condition character who confronts continuous hurdles until the nirvana moment ,
the climax.
Oh God,writing is painful . It takes
weeks and months to write my first and ever final draft. And surely, the moment
has not come yet. I pause a little ,
have a walk and may be go to Marrakech to abandon the inside troubles of revealing myself . Back again , I read a lot and entertain my soul by reading the
myths of the Joseph Campell Hero . The Character refuses to come out and I help
myself to read Linda Seger‘s unforgettable characters .
I am a beginner in filmmaking and
all of my short stories which I have cinematically realized before, are written
from my imagination . But now , the thing is different because my script must be
different as Hollywood is always asking
for . I will never go to America nor to Hollywood but My journey to write , will
never stop . That is for sure. My cinema audience is now hungry for a powerful , well - structured
feature film . My sole desire is to satisfy my audience empathically.
Stop . I go back to listen to Trudy’s
voice . Surprisedly, I write the double of me. Something urges me to enforce
the demons inside and make pressure on
them . I cut the shit and go back and make a lot of research . I decide not to use dialog but my character has to express
himself and please delete the text and use only subtext . Then , I have
to read it
aloud while my wife is snoring .That will pace the thing . Cut the shit again
and rewrite it .Oh how wonderful, Ingmar Bergman uses the economy of dialog.
My character inside me is weak again. He has wounds and of course , I am a
human being and surely I want to write a story of him . The end of the story
should reveal me as self-revelation . I am an egoist writer because I like
myself a lot . That is a revelation commented by my wife, already fed up with my
books here and there in our rosy bed . Do
not worry honey, I am a changing man now, and I am going to write a story whose
character utters words like I love you.
by Allal
