I don’t need pity, I need a paycheck. And I’ve looked. But when you’ve spent the past six years raising babies it’s real hard to find somebody who pays worth a damn. Are ya getting every word of this down honey or am I talking too fast?
The story of Erin Brokovich is straight down the middle. It’s a Great movie because the screenplay focuses on character, that character is portrayed by Julia Roberts in her All-Timer work that weaponizes everything she does well in a type we’ve never seen her play before. Add to that Steven Soderbergh at his peak and you have a modern classic.
I’ve watched Erin Brockovich a lot, and I’ve read the screenplay dozens of times more. I’ve used it as a learning device for my own writing because it’s a perfect balance between story and character with excellent, excellent dialogue. In my lifetime, there is no script that better charts what each scene should do to the point that I’ve used it as a blueprint for a script I had optioned. And you can go back another generation, because here’s some dialogue from a scene in the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon.
The only chance I have of catching them and bringing them in is by staying away from you because you’d only gum up the works. You getting this or am I going too fast?
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