201 - How would this be a movie?

Jun 9, 2015

John and Craig look at three current news stories from a screenwriter’s perspective, discussing how each lends itself to becoming a movie.

 

Would FIFA’s Stepp Blatter make a better Coen Brothers hero or a Sorkin villain? Could the Large Hadron Collider lend itself to a romantic comedy? Is there even a movie to make about campus sexual politics and academic freedom?

 

Also discussed: the trap of “Do what you love.”

 

Links:

 

• A timeline on the FIFA scandal
• Large Hadron Collider turns on ‘data tap’, and the Large Hadron Collider on Wikipedia
• Star Trek’s Prime Directive and Zefram Cochrane on Wikipedia
• Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe by Laura Kipnis
• Title IX Investigation Opened Against Female Northwestern Professor Over Column, Tweet
• In the Name of Love
• “Carasc” Tibetan Bridge
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Game of Thrones by Telltale Games
• Traveling back into the past to trade for present gain by Tyler Cowen
• Outro by Scriptnotes listener Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

 

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.