Screenwriting Tools & Strategies To Keep The Audience Engaged - Paul Joseph Gulino [FULL INTERVIEW]

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In this Film Courage video interview, Chapman University Professor and Author Paul Joseph Gulino on Screenwriting Tools and Strategies To Keep The Audience Engaged.
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I've been studying these full-length interviews for about two years now. Each one helps me learn more. Thank you Film Courage.

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[@scottslotterbeck3796]

Film Courage really gives writers a college-level education in writing. And not just screenwriting, but really all storytelling.

[@Ami-dk9pl]

The only downside to watching these amazing interviews is when you get mesmerized and forget to finish your screenplay! Thank you for bringing out the autenthicity in everyone!

[@bavv3441]

That part about always applying a verb to a line of dialogue is extremely cool. never heard that before

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

I really like his insights. He's bright and knows his stuff.

[@gina.1]

As a screenwriter that has a number of projects in development, I find that these videos reignite my enthusiasm, refresh old learnings, and/or push me to keep stretching to the next level. Thank you so much FILM COURAGE for all your hard work and contribution.

[@AndOrMaybeSure]

I’m a novel writer, and I just wanted to thank you for this. It’s so helpful. Scenes are born from the story.

[@luisfernandorodrigues609]

I bought this book and it's absolutely amazing. By dissecting the ideas in it, you will learn way more than going to film school. Paul Gulino is Amazing

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

He is very astute. I wish I had him as a teacher 20 years ago! "Withhold information from the audience" is really powerful advice.

[@davidwebb2568]

One of many on here I could listen to on a 24hr loop and never get bored. I sense a Film Courage marathon again today 😊👍

[@hnttakata713]

The writers are the brilliance behind the movies, yet the actors get paid millions, writers just a minuscule of what the producers, directors and others get. Seems unjust. Without the creative, imagination of a writer, you have no film.

[@nettietrees7238]

I heard David lynch say he uses sequences after being taught by Frank Daniel, so I checked him out and found this guy had written a book after studying under him also! I’ve just finished reading his book online - I read it in one sitting, absolutely fascinating! Then came looking for any videos with him, and of course you guys have in one! Perfect. Thank you.

[@Sophia-wv6yf]

Paul Joseph Gulino , your my hero ❤️

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

I really love his insights.

[@kimatlastlooks2915]

Love him. Thanks for posting the entire interview! Funny coincidence, I have a friend who is also a professor at Chapman. I hadn't made the connection until recently. LOL

[@CraigHinrichs]

Paul is amazing and his book is just absolutely wonderful. I am a huge fan!

[@DafineDesign]

22:30 - 23:05 The movie *_Da 5 Bloods_* did this pretty well !

[@ernolaunis]

Thank you for this video!

[@howardkoor9365]

A sensational interview

[@darahauspage]

Great interview! Thanks.

[@filmcourage]

Thanks for watching Haus Page!

[@jakeausten9673]

1:00:50 Blowup was an interesting film for me because it's one I wasn't thrilled by while watching it most of the time, but I thought about A LOT after watching. Then I watched it again, and again. A more recent film with an unreliable narrator is American Psycho, but at the same time, I think focusing on the details narrator is unreliable about misses the point of each film. American Psycho isn't a film about how Patrick Bateman might or might not have killed a bunch of people, it's a film about the shallow yuppie society of the 1980s, the irrelevance of what's on the inside because no one cares about anything but that shallow exterior layer. A film where the unreliable narrator is part of the point of the point of the film is Fight Club.

[@Archaic1Eye]

Half an hour in and I'm getting so much nutrition, great stuff.

[@nettietrees7238]

I would love to know if their is a book about these other techniques he talks about in the beginning. He talks about the ‘big four’ in his book, and adds in extras like ‘reversals’ etc, but I would love to know if there is a ‘dramatists techniques’ out there

[@anavonrebeur6121]

1:09 Is a jewel

[@anavonrebeur6121]

Blow up Is based on a short story by Julio Cortázar , argentinian genius

[@TheDiamondShoppeBeats]

In reference to the unreliable narrator, I'm wondering whether "Secret Window" starring Johnny Depp would be considered as such? I love that movie... Great interview. Tons of gems.

[@ryanhowell4492]

I'm almost done with my first project

[@filmcourage]

Congrats Ryan!

[@ryanhowell4492]

@@filmcourage I’m just figuring out on how to sell my script

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[@AnthonyPetrone]

1:05:13 - 1:05:47 GODDAMN that's it right there.

[@mercurious6699]

58:30 An example of an unreliable narrator is Kevin Spacey's Verbal in Usual Suspects :)

[@d.b.cooper542]

Or the main character in Fight Club.

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

That's the classic example!

[@patod4]

A storyteller indeed tells about the past BUT tells it as though it is happening in the present. The narrated parts can be in past tense, but the dialogues and the characters are in present tense. The storyteller also wants to hook the attention of the audience and get it emotionally involved in what is happening, not with what happened.

[@christianmogildea4963]

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[@anavonrebeur6121]

Amazingly long lectures. Writers aré talkers!

[@NativeHollywood]

A FILM UNRELIABLE NARRATOR? Obviously you missed Fight Club . . .

[@mel3687]

Yep. Also Shutter Island, Big Fish, Gone Girl, Identity, The Sixth Sense--or any movie where the character realizes by the end of the movie they're the murderer/culprit/antagonist etc.

[@sgdsingh9123]

Unreliable narrator in film would be something like Steven Rogers’ I, Tanya, no?

[@Jellofish777]

Mr. Robot is a great show that happens to double as a perfect example of unreliable narration.

[@filmcourage]

Thanks for posting!

[@chucku.farley]

Shutter Island...unreliable narrator