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Andy Conway
UK writer and filmmaker
I have a feature film and two TV drama series in development and also write fiction as well as penning articles for various magazines around the world.
On top of that
I edit the Screenwriter's Network bulletin for Shooting People, which goes out to 10,000 screenwriters worldwide every weekday, and produce the Shooting Screenwriters Show.
A new article / blog / rant (delete as applicable) will appear here every Friday afternoon so come back and check it out. Or subscribe with this RSS thingummy...
You make my dreams (come true)?
In the romcom everyone loves to hate, Notting Hill
, floppy-haired beta-male Hugh Grant bemoans his mid-point split with out-of-his-league movie star Julia Roberts with the words 'It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.' We then see a montage of him depressed and lonely without her, mocked by memories of her.
If they turned that montage into a move all of its own, its name would be (500) Days of Summer
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Love me one time, baby
Anyone who's ploughed through this site will know that I've got a bit of a thing for time travel stories, as well as a penchant for romcoms and tragic love stories like Somewhere in Time. So it's no surprise that I was pretty eager to see the long-delayed movie adaptation of Audrey Niffeneggar's smash hit faux-lit novel The Time Traveler's Wife.
And, despite the sickly trailer, it doesn't disappoint... [More]
Blake Snyder : 1957 - 2009
It is with great sadness and deep shock that I learned today of the loss of Blake Snyder, who died from cardiac arrest on August 4, 2009.
Blake was a screenwriting teacher and author of the brilliant Save the Cat!
, a manual that offered a fresh approach on screenwriting structure and laid out a revolutionary template for genre. [More]
Love like blood
I've always had a thing for vampire films. From the age of 11 I was allowed to stay up late and watch Hammer's brilliant Dracula
movies. I was obsessed for years with a comic adaptation of The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires
. I even love Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula
, and no one loves that.
There's something about vampire mythology that hits the spot in a way that werewolves, zombies and all those other members of the supernatural bestiary just don't. And let's be honest, it's the sex... [More]
It's the little things that count...
I don't normally write about TV series once I've already taken a look at them.
But with the second season of Mad Men
now airing on BBC4, I couldn't resist the opportunity to immerse myself in it again, having only scratched the glossy surface of season one. And besides, this is Mad Men , quite possibly the greatest TV drama series of all time... [More]
