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Commentary: Screenwriter & BlueCat Founder Gordy Hoffman

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 12:45 a.m.

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This is my commentary and takeaways from my conversation with Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance-winning writer of Love Liza (starred\\xa0his brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman), and founder of BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. Check the feed for the interview.\\xa0

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In this commentary I discuss

  • What I appreciate about Gordy\\xa0
  • My thoughts on feedback and dealing with the issues that come up when giving and receiving it
  • The importance of having uncomfortable conversations
  • Some reflections on addiction, in context to the character in Love Liza and other observations

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If you\'d like to hear another thoughtful conservation about screenwriting and story development, you might appreciate this\\xa0interview with Golden Globe-winning producer Lindsay Doran, who helped develop icon films\\xa0This Is Spinal Tap, Ferris Bueller\\u2019s Day Off, and Ghost.

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Related Things

Music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.

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Books Mentioned

  • Jugheadcomic book series
  • Nightby Elie Wiesel

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Shows & Movies Mentioned

  • 27 Dresses
  • Alien
  • Almost Famous
  • Animal House
  • Annihilation
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Boogie Nights
  • Capote
  • Citizen Kane
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Devil Wears Prada
  • Get Out
  • Godzilla
  • Godfather
  • Get Out
  • Independence Day
  • Jaws
  • King Kong
  • La Dulce Vita
  • Love Liza
  • The Master
  • The Meg - reversals
  • Mission: Impossible III\\xa0
  • Nutcracker and the Four Realms
  • Owning Mahowny
  • The Searchers
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Titanic
  • Unforgiven
  • We Bought a Zoo
  • When Harry Met Sally

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