Logline: A businessman’s obsession with his competitor leads him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, fantasy, and delusion.Īnalysis: This is one of the most unexpected scripts on the list because I typically don’t like these types of screenplays – where the writer is playing with reality in such a way that you don’t know what’s real and what isn’t. After we go through them, we can talk about what we learned. How many elements from your screenplay can you say are unique enough or strong enough to be memorable? Because when you boil down screenwriting, what you’re trying to do is create something that sticks with a reader – that gets inside of them. I forget most of the screenplays I read within a week of reading them. Then a third! Keep in mind, these WordPress pages list 100 blog entries per page!Īt a certain point, I stopped looking for impressives and just looked for scripts that left an impression on me. I scrolled down through one page of entries – didn’t find my ten impressives. So I decided to go back through my posts and find the last ten “impressives” that I gave. I was probably forgetting some great scripts just because the current strawberry crop was yielding such tiny berries. My first thought was that I was a victim of recency bias. Well I’m asking a similar question: “Where have all the screenwriters gone?” Paula Cole had this soulful moody tune where she asked, “Where have all the cowboys gone?”

If you’re anything like me (and if you’ve been on this site for long enough, I’m assuming you are), you’re wondering, “What happened to all the great scripts?” These days, an “impressive” on Scriptshadow is as rare as a Twitter user admitting they were wrong. I dug into my 2020-2021 archives and found the ten best screenplays of the last two years!

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