| Re: REQ - The Simpsons Script (IN PROPER FORMAT) (any episode) - Thanks. [message #271358] |
Fr, 19 Mai 2006 21:45 |
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kar [at] oke.net schreef:
(a blank posting)
Can't they be found in the episode's modules on SNPP?
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| Re: REQ - The Simpsons Script (IN PROPER FORMAT) (any episode) - Thanks. [message #271369 ] |
Sa, 20 Mai 2006 04:10 |
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Uhro wrote:
> kar [at] oke.net schreef:
>> [the title is the message]
> Can't they be found in the episode's modules on SNPP?
I think he wants a script the way it is written for the actors.
You can buy a script online (for example, from www.scriptcity.net);
there are also "free" scripts, but these are almost always
transcripts.
For example, here's how a not-quite-final script for "Bart Sells His
Soul" starts (I have some photocopies of scripts somebody sent me - I
think he worked for a Canadian TV or radio station):
ACT 1
SCENE 1
FADE IN:
EXT. ESTABLISHING - SPRINGFIELD CHURCH - SUNDAY MORNING
The church marquee reads: "No Shoes--No Shirt--No Salvation." FAMILIES
enter wearing their Sunday best.
INT. SPRINGFIELD CHURCH - VESTIBULE - CONTINUOUS
BART holds a basket lablled "Today's Hymns." Each person takes a
xeroxed handout from it as they enter.
BART
Hymns here! I got hymns here! Get 'em while they're holy! Fresh from
God's brain to your mouth! (SNEAKY CHUCKLE)
INT. SPRINGFIELD CHURCH - A LITTLE LATER
REV. LOVEJOY
And now, please rise for our opening hymn... (CONSULTING HANDOUT) Uh,
"Stairway to Heaven" by "Ed Zeppelin"?
At the organ, MRS. FISCHE puts on her bifocals and begins
sight-reading the sheet music.
CONGREGATION
(SINGING) There's a lady who's sure / All that glitters is gold / And
she's buying a stairway to heaven.
BART
(GLEEFUL CHUCKLE)
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. CHURCH - TEN MINUTES LATER
Mrs. Fische is rocking out at the organ, but she doesn't look too
happy about it.
CONGREGATION
(SINGING) And as we wind on down the road / Our shadows taller than
our soul / There walks a lady we all know...
REV. LOVEJOY
(TO HIMSELF) Wait a minute -- This sounds like rock and/or roll.
A beach ball CAROMS off his head.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. CHURCH - A MINUTE LATER
The exhausted, swaying congregation finished up. Several members hold
up lit votive candles.
CONGREGATION
And she's buy-ing a stairway..
FLANDERS
(EXTREME FALSETTO) to -- Heav-en.
HOMER
(AFTER A BEAT, THEN SINGS) Wanna whole lotta love. (DESCENDING GUITAR
SOUND) Wanna whole lotta love... (SCAT SINGING)
Note that the formatting is fudged a bit (for example, dialogue is
indented an inch on each side from the rest of the text and should be
double-spaced, and the speakers' names are indented about another 1
1/2 inches as well).
-- Don
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| Re: REQ - The Simpsons Script (IN PROPER FORMAT) (any episode) - Thanks. [message #271374 ] |
Sa, 20 Mai 2006 08:22 |
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"Don Del Grande" <del_grande_news [at] earthlink.net> wrote
> For example, here's how a not-quite-final script for "Bart Sells His
> Soul" starts (I have some photocopies of scripts somebody sent me - I
> think he worked for a Canadian TV or radio station):
> REV. LOVEJOY
> And now, please rise for our opening hymn... (CONSULTING HANDOUT) Uh,
> "Stairway to Heaven" by "Ed Zeppelin"?
I might be walking into a trap here, but wasn't the 'hymn' they were singing
'Inagardadavita' by I-ron Butterfly? I'm sure it was on the version they
played here anyway...
Paul
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| Re: REQ - The Simpsons Script (IN PROPER FORMAT) (any episode) - Thanks. [message #271388 ] |
Sa, 20 Mai 2006 18:16 |
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Paul Bartram wrote:
> Don Del Grande wrote
>
>> For example, here's how a not-quite-final script for "Bart Sells His
>> Soul" starts (I have some photocopies of scripts somebody sent me - I
>> think he worked for a Canadian TV or radio station):
>
>> REV. LOVEJOY
>> And now, please rise for our opening hymn... (CONSULTING HANDOUT) Uh,
>> "Stairway to Heaven" by "Ed Zeppelin"?
>
>I might be walking into a trap here, but wasn't the 'hymn' they were singing
>'Inagardadavita' by I-ron Butterfly? I'm sure it was on the version they
>played here anyway...
Well, the Bart version was called "In the Garden of Eden", but yes,
that's the version that was eventually made. That's why I said it was
a "not-quite-final" script. (On the DVD commentary, they say that
they wanted to use "Stairway to Heaven" but couldn't because, at the
time, Led Zeppelin wasn't letting any of their songs be used by
anybody for whatever reason.)
-- Don
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| Re: REQ - The Simpsons Script (IN PROPER FORMAT) (any episode) - Thanks. [message #271408 ] |
So, 21 Mai 2006 08:10 |
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"Don Del Grande" <del_grande_news [at] earthlink.net> wrote
> Paul Bartram wrote:
> >I might be walking into a trap here, but wasn't the 'hymn' they were
singing
> >'Inagardadavita' by I-ron Butterfly? I'm sure it was on the version they
> >played here anyway...
> Well, the Bart version was called "In the Garden of Eden", but yes,
> that's the version that was eventually made. That's why I said it was
> a "not-quite-final" script. (On the DVD commentary, they say that
> they wanted to use "Stairway to Heaven" but couldn't because, at the
> time, Led Zeppelin wasn't letting any of their songs be used by
> anybody for whatever reason.)
OK, knew there had to be an explanation. The Iron Butterfly 'epic' worked
well in this context, and I can't listen to the original track without
picturing the poor organist collapsing at the end! Just as well they didn't
use Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' instead - that would have killed her...
Paul
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