The Broken English blog features our Broken English Podcast and various other items including rants and photographs. This could appeal to you, maybe it won’t. If it doesn’t, again, it’s not us, it’s you. Of course said with love. And maybe a small amount of resentment. Why don’t you love us too, oh, reader?
In the hush after the holidays and on the cusp of Sundance season, a quiet revolution is creeping into the film world’s margins. Indie directors, fresh from applying for early-year grants, find themselves armed with algorithms as much as cameras. Cutting-edge tools are slashing traditional costs: studios report roughly a 20-30% drop in production spending […]
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Behind the romantic notion of a lone writer with pen and parchment lurks the modern reality of code and cloud. Today, “from the germination of an idea to the final cut,” AI systems touch every stage of filmmaking.[1] In practice, this means a writer might feed a prompt to a large language model (LLM) for […]
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Imagine reading a novel where a refugee character laments “Kaung not have enough money.” Would you cringe, or accept this stilted phrasing as the character’s actual voice? In fact, most linguists and writers agree it’s more caricature than reality. One writing-advice forum bluntly warns that “the caricature of the non-native speaker speaking incomplete English is […]
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In today’s global film industry, language is no longer the insurmountable barrier it once was. Filmmakers increasingly craft stories for audiences worldwide, sometimes even shooting the same film in multiple languages. For example, Hugo Lunny’s documentary We Regret Nothing (2019) about a vampire cult was produced in English, French (Nous ne regrettons rien) and Spanish […]
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Digital Screenplays: The Mobile Revolution How digital screenplays mobile technology is transforming an industry once bound by paper and tradition Section Index The Ancient Regime of Script Publishing The Digital Awakening: A Decade of Transformation The Mobile Imperative The Economics of Digital Liberation Format Advantages: Beyond the PDF Paradigm The Last Twenty Years: From Resistance […]
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In Hollywood’s production pipeline, the screenplay is far more than a literary curiosity – it’s the film’s blueprint. One page of a script roughly equals one minute of screen time, so a 110-page screenplay becomes a 110-minute movie. Unlike a novel, a script isn’t meant to be savored as prose. It’s a machine-readable document: terse […]
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By 2026, the screenplay industry finds itself at a rare inflection point. Once a niche creative practice bound by tradition and ritual, it is now caught in the pull of rapid technological acceleration, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation. What emerges is a market increasingly shaped by software, artificial intelligence, and globalized modes of production, yet […]
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Going back into theatres to watch movies in 2020 sounds like a gamble, doesn’t it? Hugo and Bola discuss how the movie theatre going experience has been going and do we want to see “Tenet” in theatres again… Have you guys gone in to watch? The two talk about the recreation of “Utopia” from its […]
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Hugo and Bola discuss underrated movies, particularly because Bola’s disappointed more people didn’t gravitate towards the epic Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” and the two elaborate on what quantifies an underrated movie. Is it public reception or box office dollars? What is actually a movie flop? Hugo again cites “Stardust” as an underrated movie that […]
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Actors, Directors& Artists in general – come to set prepared Hugo goes off on a rant praising actors who take their craft seriously and slamming those that come unprepared. Bola, a more seasoned actor, responds from the actor’s perspective. They also attribute the same responsibilities to directors and other crew members that are either unprepared […]
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