In the 2004 teen film, Mean Girls, we meet the titular mean high school girl clique unfavorably known as the Plastics. They are given this insulting nickname because

The Hunger Games sets its tone as a pretty dark and gloomy film adaptation about a dystopian future America where kids are forced to fight to the death in government

The 2015 Pixar movie, Inside Out, does an outstanding job striking an emotional chord amongst their audience. And from the premise and the themes that were explored in

  The Princess and the Frog, in my humble opinion, is one of the best animated films that I have seen (a close runner up, for me, is

Over the years, I have received a lot of questions from aspiring young screenwriters wanting to know the difference between story and plot. The easiest way to explain

The theme in a movie is its underlying message, or central idea of the story. The theme is typically shaped around a strong belief about life or people that the writer

The characters that you create for your screenplay are just as important as the actual story that you want to tell through them. Your characters will make or

You do not have a very interesting story without a good amount of CONFLICT.  When writing your story, you have to first establish a goal that your main

Not only is this the movie title of the film I’d like to discuss, but this is a very important question every screenwriter should have in mind when