The Writer’s Groundhog Day
I was fourteen or fifteen, and staying with family friends in Illinois over winter break. I was staying in an attic that had been converted into a bedroom, and I was slipping under the covers when the strangest thing happened: my legs went half way down the bed and stopped. I couldn’t extend my legs […]
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For years I kept hearing that screenwriters are storytellers. Screenplays are stories told with pictures. Story is the most important part of a screenplay. Blah blah blah. When I was a newcomer to the field this all struck me as odd and inaccurate and skewed. In thinking about my favorite movies I would rarely think […]
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The most useful thing I do every day is probably eating. I also consider working on a screenplay to be useful, and finishing one even more so. The most useless thing I do every day is to play the drums. I’ve come to drumming fairly recently. I’ve played guitar forever, tickled the ivories on and […]
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Is the movie Groundhog Day about time? Is that a central theme? I glanced over at the Laboratory section of my website to see how people were answering the question, “What is Groundhog Day about?â€Â So far the answers have included transformation, getting it right, growing up, change, reincarnation, grace, self-actualization…. even “pastriesâ€, which may […]
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In my blog entry on Chumps and Jerks, I got into a discussion with Al of Wisconsin about balance and weave – but Al also offered this: “Phil has his dark moments in the film. Many of them. Yet he has a core of decency. Many a lesser man might have gone on a homicidal […]
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It was a particularly beautiful fall weekend in Santa Fe and I took myself for a walk in the mountains. The air was crispy, the autumn colors were stunning, and I found my feet walking the familiar path to visit my old friend Phil Connors up in his cave. “So glad to see you!†said […]
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For many people, the first and most obvious question following up a discussion on Groundhog Day is, “What was your best day ever?â€Â People ask me this all the time. But the truth is I had never thought about it. For me this was never the focus of the movie and it doesn’t relate very […]
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