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Have you ever watched a highly complicated historical film that spans long stretches of time, features multiple storylines, dozens of characters and feeds you exorbitant amounts of information and thought to yourself: how does someone even begin to write something like that?
Then you're in luck!

In this video essay we'll go through many outstanding screenplays to uncover the handy techniques that creative writers use to find method in this madness. Techniques such as cold opens, intercutting, dialogue hooks, rhyming scenes, montages and many more.

The screenplays most often used as examples here are:
-"Lawrence of Arabia" by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson
-"Reds" by Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths
-"Gandhi" by John Briley
-"The Last Emperor" by Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe
-"Malcolm X" by Spike Lee & Arnold Perl
-"Schindler's List" by Steven Zaillian
-"Nixon" by Oliver Stone & Stephen J. Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson
-"Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan

We also go through several films by Martins Scorsese: "Goodfellas" and "Casino" (written by Scorsese & Nicholas Pileggi), "The Wolf of Wall Street" (by Terence Winter) and "The Irishman" (by Steven Zaillian).

Also mentioned here are the films "Lincoln" (Tony Kushner), "JFK" (Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar), "Il Divo" (Paolo Sorrentino), "Carlos" (Olivier Assayas & Dan Franck), "Vice" (Adam McKay), "The Big Short" (Adam McKay and Charles Randolph) and "Viva Zapata" (John Steinbeck).

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