I've curated a tour through six decades of comedy to help in your screenwriting education whether you're new to the craft, an emerging voice, or firmly established in the biz
Holy shit this is unreal. I found one of my favorites from back in the back in the day. The Rockateer .I love that movie. What a great way to start a morning.
Dude this is so cool. I found a ton of scripts to read and review. Thank you for posting this. I can finally understand how scripts are written. Do you have access to Homicide life on the street scripts? I would love to review those.
Can’t believe that I’ve actually seen half of these and recognized so many more. One minor and one major additional, both car chases
Blues Brothers, because no one on the set had any idea of what Belusi would do next.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. A 3-hour chase movie with almost every comedian known to the 1963 public. (Even Jack Benny in a cameo.) Directed by Stanley Kramer, his first comedy. (Judgment at Nuremberg was more his metier before.) His autobiography was titled “A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! A Life in Hollywood.”
I co-sign on this list. It has all of my desert island movies - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Annie Hall, Tootsie, The Jerk... I could go on. Two you missed (imho) are, The Producers and perhaps my ALL TIME FAVE, Where's Poppa? (Which, among many of these seminal films, would never be made today but are SPECTACULAR.)
I couldn't find THE PRODUCERS and a few other titles I wanted to include such as MRS. DOUBTFIRE. These things inevitably read like best ofs, when they're really the greatest scripts I could locate for free on the interwebs.
Very useful! And I couldn’t agree more!
I hope you find much here to be inspired by!
@Kyle Secor this might be a fun project
I think you should do it.
Holy shit this is unreal. I found one of my favorites from back in the back in the day. The Rockateer .I love that movie. What a great way to start a morning.
I've been trying to do an Oral History of that film for a while, as I know one of the screenwriters. Hopefully I can make it happen!
Dude this is so cool. I found a ton of scripts to read and review. Thank you for posting this. I can finally understand how scripts are written. Do you have access to Homicide life on the street scripts? I would love to review those.
I've tried to dig up the HOMICIDE pilot without luck, sorry!
I will reach out to Tom Fontana to see if it available some where. I follow him on Instagram. Thanks
Can’t believe that I’ve actually seen half of these and recognized so many more. One minor and one major additional, both car chases
Blues Brothers, because no one on the set had any idea of what Belusi would do next.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. A 3-hour chase movie with almost every comedian known to the 1963 public. (Even Jack Benny in a cameo.) Directed by Stanley Kramer, his first comedy. (Judgment at Nuremberg was more his metier before.) His autobiography was titled “A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! A Life in Hollywood.”
woooow! Thank you so much!!!
I co-sign on this list. It has all of my desert island movies - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Annie Hall, Tootsie, The Jerk... I could go on. Two you missed (imho) are, The Producers and perhaps my ALL TIME FAVE, Where's Poppa? (Which, among many of these seminal films, would never be made today but are SPECTACULAR.)
I couldn't find THE PRODUCERS and a few other titles I wanted to include such as MRS. DOUBTFIRE. These things inevitably read like best ofs, when they're really the greatest scripts I could locate for free on the interwebs.