The "If Beale Street Could Talk" screenplay PDF opens us up to Barry Jenkins' interpretation of a James Baldwin classic. How did he do it? Barry Jenkins burst onto the scene with his adaptation of the play Moonlight. His follow up, If Beale Street Could Talk, is another romance that challenges us to see why love is so important, and how resilience can carry you. It's based on the book by James Baldwin. If you're unfamiliar with the book, this is what Joyce Carol Oates said in her review for The New Yorker back in 1974: "'If Beale Street Could Talk' is a moving, painful story. It is so vividly human and so obviously based upon reality, that it strikes us as timeless--an art that has not the slightest need of esthetic tricks, and even less need of fashionable apocalyptic excesses." Sounds great, but also daunting in terms of an adaptation. Today we're going to look at a few interesting items from the If Beale Street Could Talk screenplay and also chat about formatting and how there are no rules in screenwriting. Let's go! Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 9 July, 2019