{"id":38876,"date":"2011-06-22T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=38876"},"modified":"2011-06-22T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T20:55:07","slug":"happy-birthday-billy-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=38876","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Billy Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=38877\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38877\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/59eea90b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"59eea90b\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/59eea90b.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/59eea90b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/59eea90b-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/59eea90b-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><big>Billy Wilder&#8217;s Tips for Writers<\/big><\/p>\n<p>1. The audience is fickle.<\/p>\n<p>2. Grab &#8217;em by the throat and never let &#8217;em go.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.<\/p>\n<p>4.  Know where you&#8217;re going.<\/p>\n<p>5.  The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>6.  If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.<\/p>\n<p>7.  A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two.  They&#8217;ll love you forever.<\/p>\n<p>8.  In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees.  Add to what they are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>9.  The event that occurs at the second-act curtain triggers the end of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>10.  The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>11. &#8212; that&#8217;s it.  Don&#8217;t hang around.<\/p>\n<p><i>Taken from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009GIDSG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B0009GIDSG\">Conversations with Wilder<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0009GIDSG&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8220;, by Cameron Crowe<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Wilder&#8217;s Tips for Writers 1. The audience is fickle. 2. Grab &#8217;em by the throat and never let &#8217;em go. 3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character. 4. Know where you&#8217;re going. 5. The more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=38876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,39],"tags":[310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38883,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38876\/revisions\/38883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}