3 Keys To Writing Great Dialogue

3 Keys To Writing Great Dialogue - Daniel Calvisi

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10 ай бұрын

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In this Film Courage video interview, Script Doctor, Writing Coach, and Author Daniel Calvisi discusses on-the-nose dialogue and its pitfalls. He defines on-the-nose dialogue as generic and lazy, overly explaining things that are already clear in the scene. While occasionally using on-the-nose dialogue might be necessary for orienting readers, he advises against making all characters sound the same or forcing Aaron Sorkin-style dialogue for everyone.
DANIEL P. CALVISI is a Script Doctor, Writing Coach and the author of Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay and Story Maps: TV DRAMA: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot. He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films and New Line Cinema. He coaches writers, teaches webinars on writing for film and television and speaks at writing conferences. Many of his clients have worked with the top networks and studios in the industry, such as Netflix, HBO, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony, ABC, Showtime, Apple TV+ and more. He holds a degree in Film and Television from New York University. He lives in Los Angeles.
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@stevenlovell3300 10 ай бұрын

Read, “the old Man and the Sea,“ about three times and you will be able to write dialogue

@Tysto 8 ай бұрын

Two exercises: 1) write a scene with three very different characters & make it obvious they're different: accent, social and economic background, & education. Get used to your characters having different voices. 2) write a scene with three brothers with identical upbringing & still make them sound different because they have different personalities. Then, in your “real” writing, decide from the start what background & personality each character has.

@neomohoto8861 6 ай бұрын

This was so helpful. I find it hard to discover the real voice of the character.

@keyshawnbess572 5 ай бұрын

That’s not how you write good dialogue. Good dialogue comes from conflict and arguments and disagreements, there should be conflict in every single scene.

@Laura-il5lo 8 ай бұрын

Raising Arizona ended with a great touching monologue and then the last line brings it back to comedy.

@jemhoare2105 10 ай бұрын

I used Dan's book to do my screenplay, helped immensely. Also ended up doing his course, which was also great.

@alejandroschmid88 10 ай бұрын

I love Terminator 2 and I think it is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made by all standards. It starts and ends with a monologue. The starting monologue gets you immediately into the story, while the ending one leaves you thinking, so I think that they work because they serve the purpose of the scenes. On the other hand, T3 tried kind of the same but fails because it doesn't serve but to expose the obvious.

@StepbyStepPhotographyandVideo 8 ай бұрын

T2 👏

@wexwuthor1776 10 ай бұрын

They say don't make characters sound the same, but people who live and/or in the same place tend to in a very similar way. And if they have similar goals even more so.

@AleksPizana 9 ай бұрын

I'm not a writer but as viewer, I'm not sure that I would like having two characters that could be condensed into one. I know that in real life people tend to sound alike, but I want characters to be interesting in movie. I want variety.

@wexwuthor1776 9 ай бұрын

@@AleksPizana Remember Braveheart. They were all very similar, but the differences came from the actors and little nuances of the particular storylines.

@NIKONGUY1960 10 ай бұрын

I'm hit or miss when it comes to dialog. I know when I read something I wrote even years ago and it still moves me to laughter, tears, etc., that I hit the mark. And then comes the cringeworthy, and I question why I gave up on those underwater basket weaving classes.

@romanumeralz 10 ай бұрын

9:03 Barbarian was a surprise hit.

@stevemuzak8526 10 ай бұрын

Dialog in this movie is over the top amazing. A 3-hour movie and I wasn't bored for a second. The ending is really touching. Hits you right to the heart.

@Turtlpwr 10 ай бұрын

Boppenbeimer?

@tiburc10 9 ай бұрын

I was bored 5 minutes in when I realized the movie was going to be a 3 hour trailer with bad dialog.

@stevemuzak8526 9 ай бұрын

@@tiburc10 weak trolling

@tiburc10 9 ай бұрын

@@stevemuzak8526 No ideia why you think I'm "trolling". Anyway, bad movie.

@stevemuzak8526 9 ай бұрын

Because saying that was a bad movie is just low IQ thing or trolling @@tiburc10

@johnclay7644 10 ай бұрын

good interview on writing dialogue.

@Adpayne16 10 ай бұрын

Yes this helps I write way too much dialogue which I was told. I need more action. And this helps. Writing is rewriting. I will continue to edit.

@filmcourage 10 ай бұрын

Great to see you working on your craft!

@astrahcat1212 10 ай бұрын

One mistake I would always make is where characters say the names of other characters too much, any kind of subtle expositiony wording sounds off slightly to the brain.

@formulaic78 10 ай бұрын

I just finished a screenplay where I introduce a few character's names via their teacher doing roll call. This also allowed me to inject some character by having them respond differently.

@BigDaddyJinx 8 ай бұрын

Yeah generally speaking, people in a conversation don't use each other's names maybe more than once as am introduction or hello. Really the only time I think people would use names is when they're trying to get their attention. Once they get it, there's no need to keep using it.

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@musicmeta_systems 6 ай бұрын

This is great, I've been trying to break down the elements of story, the on the nose dialog thing reminded me of in songwriting, I want the lyrics to not exist in everyday life, it should not be easily understood, like a puzzle that anyone can solve, but also, there's a moment after you've been coy for 2 minutes straight, when you say something incredibly straightforward, that's much more obvious and forthright than normal, it's just a nice juxtaposition. You beat around the bush, then attack them with candor. It subverts their expectation because they expect you to be vague at that point. They put their guard down, almost.

@NashDayZ 9 ай бұрын

Can’t believe Barbarian caught some strays at the end - literally one of the best debuts of a writer/director and in my favourite genre too. Damn the disrespect 😂

@HottSundaeTv Ай бұрын

I’m a new writer learning this is helpful!

@chriswest8389 10 ай бұрын

About 1minute in. I call putting a stamp on it. You show preferably,ist, Then, very briffly, you get one or two characters to spell it out as it relates to naritive, stakes,. A mini summery.

@ryanhowell4492 10 ай бұрын

I will use it as a advantage

@Jamesington 10 ай бұрын

re the 'discovery' scenes, I think you have to be careful with those lest you make your audience feel dumb for not realizing the scene's purpose before you reveal it to them.

@marvinj71 10 ай бұрын

Barbarian was one of the best movies I saw all year..

@filmcourage 10 ай бұрын

How did you like the ending?

@lalareal180 9 ай бұрын

Barbarian was trash 2nd third act. INbred superhuman utters. Bye!

@deanmountford 10 ай бұрын

Biggest dialogue mistake “What are you doing here?” 😡😡😡😡

@RawHeadRay 9 ай бұрын

When I worked at a job where I was manually doing a thing I could play audio in my earbuds, lectures in science, ancient Egypt, audio friendly material. Sometimes I’d want to run a movie to switch up to a story. I never picked movies by talented directors who mastered cinema because a lot of the story is visual and I can’t get eyes on the screen, lazy screenwriters have a use 😂

@77picturesUS 3 ай бұрын

Not sure I agree that ALL have same style in Succession. Greg, kendall, connor, gerri etc does not do the fast paced insults.

@paladinsorcerer67 8 ай бұрын

The new Robocop movie ends on a monologue. Samuel Jackson is a cable? TV? news journalist who discusses the pros and cons that a cyborg cop has on society. It is done in the style of an editorial television program you might see on CNN or Fox News. It is presented in a way that assumes that the events in the movie have importance and need further discussion (maybe leaving room open for a sequel), but I am not sure if it succeeds at providing enough closure. I liked the movie more than I expected to, being a fan of science fiction, but the ending was presented in such a way that to me it seemed to be tacked on, almost as an afterthought. I wonder if maybe they had put more effort into not only the content but also the style of the end monologue, it would have been better at wrapping up the ending.

@minoru8391 3 ай бұрын

Mia Goth's monologue was in Pearl not X

@Plantstho 10 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer dialogue: "- You heard about the scientist in Germany? He scienced some science! - Oh shit, we gotta science harder! - Atoms! Stars!"

@filmcourage 10 ай бұрын

What do you think about monologues?

@ryanhowell4492 10 ай бұрын

It's inspiring

@b.claire.whitehead 10 ай бұрын

The monologue in Pearl is amazing.

@AltairZielite 10 ай бұрын

I wasn't sure about the monologues in my story...(not narration, scenes with character alone). Each character gets at least one. I 'think' it works because they are almost never alone, and so, well, not whole when not with the others. Revealing aspects of their spirit the audience would have never gleaned otherwise. Maybe there is a more clever way to get that across, but, hey, I'm still a newbie at this game.

@Thenoobestgirl 10 ай бұрын

If you want to know what on the nose dialogue is then just open up Fourth Wing 😂

@befelto8450 6 күн бұрын

An opinion. And an educated one; from someone who doesn’t write screenplays for a living. Write what you want and don’t pay anyone to tell you how to write it.

@bobpowers9637 10 ай бұрын

“Luke, I am your father”

@landofthesilverpath5823 9 ай бұрын

One film where the characters are too clever and it turns into self-paraody is David Mamet's the Spanish Prisoner. Dialogue became stilted and forced. Made when Mamet was at the height of his popularity, I think he let his fame and fortune go to his head.

@Tysto 8 ай бұрын

Very much agree.

@ritabrennan4464 9 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer is the biggest bore of the year, and succession never had a plot until the final episode…good writing goes a lot farther than characters insulting each other