screenplay
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- noun
- /ˈskriːnˌpleɪ/
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guion
- She spent months perfecting her screenplay before submitting it to the studio.
- write a screenplay
- read the screenplay
- draft of a screenplay
The first time I wrote a screenplay, it was in sheer anger.
- The first time I wrote a screenplay, it was in sheer anger.
- And I'm going to write a screenplay about a woman.
- And I read the screenplay before they started the film.
- All right, let's write a screenplay where these locations are featured.
- Another is the screenplay, which became a film called Side Effects.
- I have, you know, a, a screenplay in the, in the works.
- At BAFTA, Koda shockingly won Best Adapted Screenplay.
- And then he he he Irves wrote the screenplay.
- And that's where the mechanics of Ordinary living screenplay came from.
- I sold every screenplay I optioned every screenplay I wrote.
- He said he ever done a film screenplay on it.
- Now that's for the wardrobe regarding the screenplay.
Examples
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How's the screenplay going?
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And I'm going to write a screenplay about a woman.
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And I read the screenplay before they started the film.
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Another is the screenplay, which became a film called Side Effects.
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Just wondering when we're gonna see that new screenplay of yours.
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Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for best screenplay.
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The first time I wrote a screenplay, it was in sheer anger.
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But then our esteemed director tore up the screenplay and told me to start all over again.
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My daughter, when she was 9, she wrote this little screenplay, and she shot a movie, you know with our little video camera, casting her friends.
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It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.
Synonyms
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The written words used by actors in a play, film, or broadcast
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A final detailed plan for filming that shows scenes, camera directions, and other production details
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A written script for a film used in early silent movies
How Developed
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- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Screenplay comes from the two words screen and play. A 'play' is a story for actors and a 'screen' is the place where a film appears, so a screenplay is the script written to be shown on the screen.