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Compared with the overwhelmingly shallow and self-serving publications of most screenwriting teachers, Mackendrick’s lucid and invigorating prose has genuine literary qualities. It also, thankfully, eschews the Believe In Yourself and Maximise Your Creative Powers approach of many how-to-write books.
- Dramatic Construction
Alexander Mackendrick The thousand techniques are inferior...
- Step Outlines
Step Outlines. In his book On Film-Making, Mackendrick...
- Oedipus
The Play and the Film: Oedipus Rex. This handout written by...
- Character Relationship Map
In his book On Film-Making, Mackendrick writes: In a...
- Once Upon a Time
Alexander Mackendrick. Dramatic Construction; Once Upon a...
- The Third Man
From Book to Screen: The Third Man. Mackendrick devised...
- On The Waterfront
Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s 1954 film On the Waterfront...
- Watergate Hearings
In the early 1970s, Mackendrick wondered whether certain...
- Dramatic Construction
Mackendrick was replaced on The Guns of Navarone for allegedly being too much of a perfectionist for spending more time than planned on scouting Mediterranean locations and insisting on elements of ancient Greek literature in the screenplay.
Alexander Mackendrick prepares a scene with Tony Curtis for Sweet Smell of Success. What also makes Mackendrick' s writings so crucially different from the majority of these kinds of texts is his belief in the exploitation of cinema's unique qualities as a storytelling medium. So enthralled by their apparent understanding of how a well-written film
Mackendrick approach to filmmaking is that of the school of Malcolm Gladwell - genius, or at very least art, can emerge though the constant application of craft, learning, and repetition. Intellect can become instinct, and magic may result.
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Jun 1, 2006 · Mackendrick produced hundreds of pages of masterly handouts and sketches, designed to guide his students to a finer understanding of how to write a story, and then use those devices peculiar to cinema in order to tell that story as effectively as possible.
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Jun 17, 2004 · An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander 'Sandy' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success.
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At the core of Mackendrick's lessons lay a deceptively simple goal: to teach aspiring filmmakers how to structure and write the stories they want to tell, while using the devices particular to...
