Congrats to James Mangold & Jay Cocks on their Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. Writers, this script is worth a close read for its narrative efficiency. Well deserved!

The section tagged 'The Emotional Stakes of Bob Dylan's Journey' is great👌

This also applies to making music. Probably painting, dancing and acting as well.

The culture loves bob’s mystery, and at the same time, what are the themes of his music? It’s all truth seeking, search for meaning. I think he was onto something beyond wreckage of hot relationships with the unknowable schtick. Maybe it’s a lens through which others could better see themselves. Great piece, and superb podcast ❤

This has to be one of the best videos on writing I've ever seen. Especially in terms of where the rubber meets the road. This is super helpful. Thank you.

I love the ending line of this podcast, "I believe in what I wrote." Especially with the guitar music chaser. So recursive, because that is what the film is about, what it means to be an artist, what one has to decide about one's art to feel authentic and run the risks, cope with the costs. Wow Jake. Myself having struggled for years about these "true story" choices, morphing on my own journey from journalist to dramatic writer and knowing that if ever produced, choices about the film will be out of my hands, this podcast is so right on target. There is no formulaic answer, writers have to keep making choices all the time, keep finding the balance. It reminds me of what I heard preached at church one time, regarding the prescription "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, give to God what is God's": this is a constant question that gets answered over and over differently, always a challenge. (N. B., I'm not literally saying the artistic quandary is a religious one. The comparison is meant to convey the perpetual exploring and soul-searching the quandary demands.)

This video was very helpful and insightful. Such valuable advice. Thank you. I’m glad I discovered this channel, it’s a matter of time before it blows up ❤

good one. but what a challenging game it is to play.

can't wait to start your class in few weeks.

This is brilliant discussion, thank you for sharing.

very interesting about networking vs making friendship and providing value to people. Such a tricky industry where it's all about who you know, connections and hierarchies.

That addition Jake has made to his intro about what we learn from films and tv shows (that we not only learn about tools that make us better screenwriters but we learn about how to live better lives) is profound. None of us would be screenwriters if that weren't true. We may not have realized that, but it's a truth that fertilizes itself.

This was really great, Jake! Thank you so much!!!♥

This was really good. My main takeaway is to keep it personal, focus on the connection, and for 3 min pitch, let them know why you wrote it

Great session, Jacob. I really appreciate all the insights you shared.

I'm comforted that a story such as Baby Reindeer got made. We don't see tragedies like this one too often.

The night before I saw this podcast, I was surrounded by advice-givers who care about me and want me to succeed. Want to convince me that a conscious-brain approach is the only path and why wasn't I taking it instead of writing in circles. All I know is that each person's take on my script was not my take. I'm writing fragments, what feel like fragments, hoping that some kind of self-organizing criticality will at any moment emerge like an epiphanous gestalt. I'm going to read The Starless Sea (I muted Jake's reading the end so I don't know the end). In the meantime, I will keep hunting for my elusive bread crumbs.

Great advice. One of my friends asked me want if you sell your pilot and you have to quit your job and move to make it. I said I’ll sleep in my car while making it if I have to. They said that crazy! I said no that passion.

excellent insight, thanks Jacob.

So helpful!! 😭🙌

Incredibly helpful breakdown of discipline. Glad to have discovered your channel.

Jake really turns the concept of discipline inside out, exposing the fear monster in an unexpected way that empowers us to overcome it, neutralize it. Highly recommend this podcast to anyone who experiences writer's block, which is to say, all of us.

Finally someone who also thinks "Longlegs" may be an allegory for sa ❤ And here I just thought I'm weird 😅

Thanks for the info in you videos. Personally I would never trust a comp that doesn't read the whole script, and no way of knowing if their readers skills are good enough to identify a good screenplay. Also, their age is a massive factor.

Amazing - thank you

I hadn't considered the notion of container before. Extremely helpful.

I’m glad that KZbin recommended this channel to me randomly 😊

Thanks for your videos. Make please video about The Exhuma (2024)

I am BJHM. Love the show. So sad and yet so funny

Brilliant analysis, Jake! I absolutely adored that meditative season 3 pilot. I thought it was courageous and powerful and lyrically beautiful. And then... Thanks for articulating all that I kind of instinctively felt. (I kept saying to myself: how can I be dissatisfied - they're such brilliant writers and actors?) With Carmy in particular, if he was to shut out family and staff it needed to be better earned, maybe...? And there was such opportunity for an arc for Marcus in his grief. Anyway, thank you for that. Loved your analysis as always.

YES IT MAKES SENSE.

If you wany to be a professional screenwriter it isn’t good enough to have just one hairline. You want to develop a second secret hairline behind it that is masked by the first.

The subtitle thing with the bouncing blue box is distracting, even annoying.

the movie sucks. But your work is eyeopening as always. Thanks!

I feel like I arrived first.

Is there a part two?

Goes for everything 🤌

Bingo...sustainable lifestyle at 6:00 Without that, your dreams will get smashed. That's why, going forward, I plan on buying a used RV and living cheaply, that way I can get buy on a part-time job which will leave me time and energy and money to write, and to come home with enough energy to want to write. I'm going to take control of my future path...it's the only way. But I realize, if I, after this film course, continue down same fiscal path of working self tirelessly every day, and dumping 1000-1,600 on rent every month, not counting other bills, that my motivation will dissipate quickly. I'd rather live cheaply, for a while, in a used RV/motorhome, and have the time and energy to write, and or the flexibility to travel...(with RV/motor home or travel trailer, you bring your home with you so don't have to worry about high rent) and go where the job opportunities are, even if seasonal. Yes, you may have to give up the luxury for a while, but so what if your first screenplay nets you $100,000 dollars!...just saying. And sorry, but you have to think like that to keep yourself driven. And finally, if I fail, I want it to be because I wasn't a good writer and not because I allowed day to day life to bully me and get in the way of my success.

OK, I've heard other successful people in music etc, say the same thing, so that's a valid point. You can be hyper skilled at your craft, have bad luck, timing, and get no where. Or, or, you can suck at your craft, get lucky, get hit by producers car and so you won't sue them they offer to turn your screenplay into a movie.. But yeah, skill set does matter, but the fact that this guy also says luck has a lot to do with it, it let's keen people know they, he's , being very HONEST and transparent...that's a good thing.

Great advice Jacob!

This is by far the most solid, clear, and cohesive piece of advice I have watched from a screenwriting video

شكرا جزيلا 🌹

"Thank you" doesn't cover it. Jake, I'll watch this video every morning. I need to. One request with regard to this: can you do a podcast about "Between the Temples"?

Yeah

Your channels amazing

Oh boy, that season writing was baaaaad

This is gold

Promethean - brilliant!

thanks, great analysis

Thank you for your contribution and your channel... very informative