Author: marielcalloway
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Science, Magic, and God from a Machine
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I’m having trouble with my ending. Many writers do, and for me it is a sign of having started more scripts than I’ve dared to see through to the end. So much more can depend on a film’s ending than its beginning. Think of M. Night Shyamalan—who would remember The…
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The Great Work Continues
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Welcome Back After nearly a year’s hiatus, I’m back! To update – I did indeed finish the thesis and graduate from school. I’ve moved to Los Angeles, gotten a job both within entertainment and outside of it, and have been steadily working on a few projects over the past few…
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No Time Like the Present: Memory and Self in Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”
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Apologies for the long hiatus without warning. Thesis Crunch. Let’s get back to the movies. I embarrassed myself yesterday in an event that will not be recounted here, but for a while I could not stop thinking about it. Even an hour after the fact I was chiding myself for…
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Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
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After finally seeing the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit last week, I’ve been in the mood for Westerns. I’ve always been a sort of subconscious fan of the genre but didn’t accept it until recently. My favorite book from ages 8 to 10 was called The Gentleman Outlaw and…
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Dystopia
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While waiting in the security line at Newark Airport last December, I had a minor revelation. It was a terrible line, probably the worst I had seen in my 4 years of flying home from the East Coast, so there was not much for me to do but look around…
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Interior Worlds
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For class this week I watched the French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) by Julian Schnabel. Based on the memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the film chronicles the life of a man who suffers a massive stroke and is then left paralyzed, unable to move anything except his…
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Information Dump, or Why “Inception” Lost Best Original Screenplay
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Okay, that’s unfair. Inception didn’t win Best Original Screenplay because the Academy preferred The King’s Speech, and with good reason. It was a great film built upon the foundation of a powerful script. (Why Hans Zimmer didn’t win Best Original Score is beyond me though…) The most common criticism I’ve…
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Why Screenplays?
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I suppose that would be a good place to start. I’m not sure that I can really pinpoint when my interest in film developed, but there is a definite moment where the screenplay became a distinct object of appreciation for me. In 7th grade I took a class called “Media”…
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Hello world!
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Let’s try out this new blog. It certainly looks very nice, doesn’t it? I really hope to give this one more love and care and attention than I’ve given blogs in the past (you can find their remains still scattered about the ruins of the internet). I never was much…
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About
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Mariel Calloway is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles, specializing in literature and screenwriting. Starting from her dorm room at Princeton University, Mariel has spent the past 5 years helping writers and companies perfect their words to generate uniquely creative content through her expertise in copywriting, script coverage, proofreading,…