Danny Rubin
Screenwriter
Danny Rubin is a screenwriter whose credits include "Hear No Evil," "S.F.W.," and the cult classic "Groundhog Day," for which he received the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year. He has taught screenwriting at a variety of universities and organizations, and is currently the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.
The biggest mistake young screenwriters make is “over-reliance on dialogue” when, in fact, a screenplay is really about setting up the visual scene.
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The tendency seems to be toward telling the same old stories with a new kind of “visual panache.” The screenwriter wants to see “more movies of substance.”
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Screenwriting is like creating Frankenstein’s monster; assembling body parts is easy, but giving them life is “almost impossible.”
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At first, the critical consensus was that “Groundhog Day” was merely “cute.” But over time it developed a mass following of viewers and critics alike.
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The screenwriter had 50 meetings with different producers when he was trying to sell his script. The most common reaction: “I loved ‘Groundhog Day.’ Of course, we can’t make it.”
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Rubin’s 1993 comedic cult classic is actually an examination of whether one lifetime is enough for some men to fully outgrow adolescence
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A conversation with the “Groundhog Day” screenwriter.
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