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Richard [Screenwriter]

Nobody Knows Anything - William Goldman (on the film industry)

About Me

I resigned from the full-time nightmare known as the corporate world to become a screenwriter ... so now can be seen in assorted cafes, pen and paper in hand, staring off into space, imagining whole different worlds and people known as characters who you come to love (and hate on the 14th rewrite).

Interested in networking with other film-makers, particularly writers but also directors, producers and anyone else involved in the crazy, fabulous, creative world of film and tv.

My Interests

Screenwriting Credits: Slice (2001), Hotel Blue (2002), The Last Candle (2005), Talkback (2006), Happy Families (2007), Priced To Clear (2007).

Grants: AFC New Screenwriters (2002), ScreenWest Filmex (2004).

Awards and Competitions: Best Writer, PAC Screen Workshops (2005 and 2006), Project Greenlight Australia - Top 50 (2005) and Top 100 (2006)

I'd like to meet:

Steven Spielberg.Aaron Sorkin.Extraterrestrial Life forms.Other writers.All creative people who have a dream!
My World Visitor Map!

Music:

Pink Floyd, Prince, Everything But the Girl, Neil Finn, Queen, Santana, Pink, Beck, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Cream, Olive, TLC, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Corrs, George Michael, Babyface, Van Morrison, Corinne Bailey Rae

Prince at the Super Bowl

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Movies:

The Godfather Parts 1&2, Amadeus, L.A. Confidential, Unforgiven, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Bladerunner, Gattaca, Memento, One Hour Photo, Minority Report, Chicago, The Insider, Field of Dreams, Moulin Rouge, Out of Sight, The Pledge, Sunset Blvd, The Third Man, 21 Grams, A Civil Action, About a Boy, Alien, Aliens, American Psycho, The Player, The Boys, Kiss or Kill, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Seven, Fightclub, Gladiator, Go, Heat, Insomnia, The Last Samurai, Little Voice, Lord of the Rings 1-3, Misery, Mystic River, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Secretary, Shakespeare in Love, The Sweet Hereafter, Shine, Starship Troopers, The Usual Suspects, The Untouchables, Black Hawk Down, Bowling for Columbine, Good Night and Good Luck, Iris, Election, Shadow of the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Underworld, The Departed, Closer, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Miami Vice

The Godfather - A Tribute

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Television:

The West Wing, Boston Legal, Entourage, Battlestar Galactica (the new series), The Office, Carnivale, Grassroots, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Deadwood, Heroes, Spooks

Growing up I loved:
The Professionals, Black Sheep Squadron, U.F.O., Magnum P.I., Fawlty Towers, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Edge of Darkness

The West Wing - Two Cathedrals

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Books:

The Thomas Convenant Chronicles, The Lensman Series (E.E. Doc Smith), Alastair MacLean, The Many Coloured Land (Julian May), Magician (Raymond Feist), Douglas Adams

many phases like Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Eric Van Lustbader, Anne Rice and even JK Rowling for a while

Screen related: 'Adventures in the Screen Trade' and 'Which Lie Did I Tell?' by William Goldman, 'Easy Riders Raging Bulls' and 'Down and Dirty Pictures' by Peter Biskind, 'Hollywood Animal' by Joe Eszterhas, 'The Sundance Kids' by James Mottram, 'The Writer's Journey' by Christopher Vogler, and I guess McKee's 'Story' is obligatory as is Linda Aronson's 'Scriptwriting Updated' and finally 'The West Wing Script Books' by Aaron Sorkin

Heroes:

Leastways people I admire:

Aaron Sorkin
Steve Zaillian (screenwriter)
Andrew Niccol (screenwriter)
Ronald Moore (showrunner)
Tom Stoppard
Prince
David Gilmour
Neil Finn
Naomi Watts
Al Pacino
Jon Stewart
Mikhail Gorbachev
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toby Ziegler
Ari Gold

Careful With That Axe Eugene - Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii

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My Blog

Closer (the play) & Inspiration

I went to see the Patrick Marber play Closer on Friday night at Rechabites Hall in Northbridge. Firstly, what a delight to hear truly cracking dialogue and secondly, the performances were uniformly te...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:13:00 PST

Game on!

Funny how things suddenly conspire to collide all at once - found out today a short script of mine has been shortlisted for a funding round (yay!) so interview upcoming, have to write a play for a cou...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Fri, 25 May 2007 01:16:00 PST

Heroes Season One Finale (no spoilers)

In a word - fuckingawesome!!!An intricately plotted show that requires more than casual viewing but it all comes together nicely and sets up an intriguing next season. Australia's still about 8-9 epis...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:35:00 PST

Bowie TV?

Life on Mars premiered on the ABC Sunday night - the sort of thing I might write so caught my attention and worth seeing if it holds up next week. English copper ends up in 1973 after being hit by a c...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:52:00 PST

That was the week that was ...

(apologies to David Frost & co) In the absence of a blog entry for a week here's a quick snapshot ... Ray Omodei (theatre director) at the playwriting course - inspiring, insightful, storyteller i...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:30:00 PST

Mother's Day request

When asked what she would like for Mother's Day, my mother, ever the football tragic, replied, "A Dockers win!" Way to go mum - ask for something simple, why don't you?! So I sent her this message ......
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Sat, 12 May 2007 03:27:00 PST

Our Holy Lady of the Sherrin

Did I lapse into a coma and miss something? Has the Pope decreed that Football is now an actual registered religion not just a much overused sporting cliche? If I hear one more time that a player, be ...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:38:00 PST

Do Not Call ... finally!!!

In a blow to speed dialling, headset wearing, bullshit uttering telemarketers everywhere, the government has finally extracted the digit and stopped people using theirs to dial me with scary prec...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Thu, 03 May 2007 12:11:00 PST

Stage Struck

I've taken the plunge and signed up for a playwriting course that starts in early May. Yep, writing for the stage. Was quite an impulsive decision but I've seen some good local theatre the last f...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:16:00 PST

Without A Box?

I went along to a seminar at E-central today called 'Maximise Your Short Film Festival Chances'. It was presented by Ruth Saunders from AFTRS who I quickly came to appreciate is an expert on all the c...
Posted by Richard [Screenwriter] on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:51:00 PST