{"id":175,"date":"2005-03-14T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T23:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/rules_for_writing_film_scripts.html"},"modified":"2005-03-14T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T23:32:14","slug":"rules_for_writi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/rules_for_writi.html","title":{"rendered":"Rules for Writing Film Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

When writing a film script, feel free not to cleave too much to your own life, especially when writing about crime. The Post elaborates<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An ex-NYPD cop accused of moonlighting as a mob hit man wrote and acted in a movie that might now be seen as a confession.<\/p>\n

In Lou Eppolito’s straight-to-video flick “Turn of Faith,” the cop character gives his gangster pals tips on a police investigation.<\/p>\n

The main character in the 2003 movie is dirty cop Joey De Carlo. De Carlo’s best friend Bobby is a mob thug killer the cop is investigating as part of a probe of a mobbed-up union. De Carlo, played by ex-boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, is the kind of cop who helps Bobby beat a guy in an alley, buries incriminating tapes, and tips off a local crime boss named Big Philly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d portrayed by Charles Durning \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about everything police are doing to the union he controls.<\/p>\n

In addition to having penned the screenplay, the porcine Eppolito himself plays a corrupt union boss in the movie.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lively critical commentary ensues:<\/p>\n

The plot line is pretty routine for a mob flick, as the tough-guy dialogue, which includes, “Get your f- – -ing hands off me, f- – -face!”\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and that’s a priest talking.<\/p>\n

But what’s striking about Eppolito’s script is that this it isn’t a corrupt-cop movie. It’s a hero-cop movie. We’re supposed to admire Joey’s loyalty because he sticks up for his friends, including Big Philly, who was once like a father to him, even if he is a murderer.<\/p>\n

Only after Big Philly orders Joey’s buddy Bobby killed does the cop want him brought down.<\/p>\n

The movie’s climactic speech is this beauty, delivered by Joey -\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”I want out. Sixteen years I’ve given to this job. Sixteen years I’ve banged my head against the wall trying to be a good cop, trying to be an honest cop, and for what? We all know how it’s gonna turn out.”<\/p>\n

It seems not to occur to Eppolito that a cop who leaks police information to the mob is anything but a good cop.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems not to occur, indeed. Two thumbs down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When writing a film script, feel free not to cleave too much to your own life, especially when writing about crime. The Post elaborates: An ex-NYPD cop accused of moonlighting as a mob hit man wrote and acted in a movie that might now be seen as a confession. In Lou Eppolito’s straight-to-video flick “Turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}