1.
A person who writes scipts, that is, the dialogue and actions of a movie. First drafts are often quite different to the final script which becomes a film, but the plotline usually stays similar.
Compared to directors and actors, screenwriters are way down in the food chain of fame, recognition, and money.
"I'm a screenwriter"
"What's that?"
"You don't know?!? Look up slangdefine!"
"Not found. WHAT THE FUCK IS A SCREENWRITER?!?!?"
See quentin tarantino, writer, film, movies
2.
-noun, plural 'screenwriters'
1. That guywho works as a receptionist and has been doing so for years. He keeps telling you about this killer ideahe's working on, but you've never seen a single page.
2. Any idiot who failed Englishin high schoolor college.
3. A careertrack at an institution of higher learning like USC, UCLA, or CMU. Usually taught by a 'workingprofessional' who sold one script about a hero dogwho saves his owner. Ironically, the cost of tuition far exceeds what most people will make as a career screenwriter.
4. Anyone with an opinion about a movie who believes they could do better if given the chance.
5. Anyone with access to word processing software.
No one on the set tells the directoror producer how to direct or produce. But everyone's a Goddamn writer. Everyone tells the screenwriter how to write.
Screenwriters need to realize that scripts are kinda like assholes: everyone's got at least one.
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