The screenplay I chose to read was The Empire Strikes Back (Original Leigh Brackett version). The thing I found the most interesting about it was that there was a lot of raw-ness about it. There were handwritten annotations that I wasn’t expecting and you could tell it was done on a typewriter because the mistakes were “X”ed out.  Also some of the bottoms of the pages were missing. I really enjoyed the experience of reading my first screenplay. I especially like how its basically like a movie playing in your head and I love how the inner thoughts and intentions of the characters are written out because we would never see those things on screen unless they were acted out in a very cheesy way or spoken aloud. I think next I am going to read the “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” one because that is my all time favorite movie.  I mean ugh there’s just so much emotion in that movie and the acting is so good and I love the way the story is told where it starts with the present then goes back into the past, then goes back way far into the past and we see all his memories of his two year relationship in order and then back to the beginning of the movie and continuing in the present. Its so well filmed and the soundtrack and the ending… UHGG!!!  SO GOOD. I have watched it like a bazillion times.

ANYWAYS back to the actual assignment: Starwars, right.

IF I were an actor in this movie, I would probably be Chewbacca.  I mean come on lets be real he was the best character other than R2D2. But If I were an actor with a role like Chewies, (or artoo for that matter) who has no real dialogue, I would still have an easy time acting the part because the script is well written enough that all of my dialogue, even thought its just unintelligible sounds, is written out to have a purpose and be treated as if it is real dialogue.  This, I think is the most impressive part of the script and makes it so much better than other scripts with nonhuman characters who don’t speak.