621 - How Would This Be a Biopic?
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig look at several notable figures in the news and ask, How Would This Be a Biopic? They examine the lives of Henry Kissinger, Sandra Day O’Connor, George Santos, Rosalynn Carter, and Sam Altman to see which are best suited for the big screen, and declare once-and-for-all the proper way to pronounce “biopic.”
We also follow up on VFX and AI, the two-column format, inner monologues, and Melissa Mazin sets the record straight on her role at Thanksgiving.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig speculate about which event in history had the biggest negative impact on human civilization.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome my name is John August. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:08.0 | And this is episode 621 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting, and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:15.0 | The past few weeks have offered up a lot of big personalities in the news, |
| 0:18.0 | with some of these individuals dying or being fired or removed from Congress. |
| 0:22.0 | Today on the show, we ask the most important |
| 0:23.9 | question of course how would this be a biopick. And thank you for saying biopick |
| 0:28.6 | and not biopic. Yes so a film that is a biography is a biopick, but sometimes it's written out as without a hyphen and it becomes biopic, and that's not a thing. |
| 0:40.0 | That's not a thing. I think people are confusing it with myopic, which is understandable, but also not understandable. |
| 0:47.6 | Because it's not like we refer to people's bios as by Oz. |
| 0:50.7 | No. Yeah. So, bio-pick, everyone.. Biopick. Yes, we're going to make a strong |
| 0:55.1 | stand here for that. We also have some follow-up on AI and inter monologues and |
| 0:59.7 | in a bonus segment for premium members Craig I want to pontificate about which event in history has had the biggest negative impact on human civilization. |
| 1:08.0 | Wow. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, so it says some college donor talk here. Ooh, okay. |
| 1:14.0 | Some old histories there. |
| 1:15.5 | We also some news. |
| 1:16.2 | We have a live show coming up. |
| 1:17.4 | So this Sunday, December 17th at 4 PM, the show is to be sold out by the time you're listening to this. |
| 1:24.5 | Of course, we're the John Bon Jovey podcast. Yes, but it's going to be a dynasty typewriter |
| 1:27.8 | again and there will be some streaming tickets available so if you're listening |
| 1:30.6 | to this on the Tuesday that the episode drops, check. |
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