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WRITING THE SCREEN PLAY 21Q
interjection, on the order of "well," "so," "oh," and so on. That is because real people are not so quick-witted as they are represented in the average screen play. Replies to questions, comebacks, quips, and the like, do not come to their lips immediately. As a result, they begin to answer by using an interjection, which gives them time enough to think up an answer. Eventually they fall into the habit of resorting to it, even when it is not necessary, so that it becomes an identifying tag. Such tags can be used for character identification in dialogue. But they must not be permitted to intrude too often, or the effect will be lost in ludicrousness.
As a matter of fact, screen-play writers themselves are prone to fall into these same faults of interjection repetitions, especially with the word "well." Care should be taken that all of the writer's unnecessary "wells" and "ohs" are deleted from the dialogue when polishing and revising the script.
Dialogue revision
Once the dialogue has been completely written, the writer should drop the script for a while. He should disassociate himself from it, so as to rid his mind of all its elements. The purpose here is to achieve an attitude of objectivity about his own work. For the writer is prone to fall into certain patterns of writing. Unless these patterns are broken, he will find, when the time comes for script revisions, that he is unable to throw off the patterns and, thus, is incapable of revision.
This done, he should then begin to read his dialogue aloud. He should do this with one hand cupped to his ear, as actors do, so as to hear himself better. If possible, he should read— acting as best he knows how— into a recording machine, shot by shot. Then, on the playback, he should listen intently for the following dialogue faults.
Superfluity. First draft screen plays are usually replete with superfluous verbiage. Trim off every word that does not add something —character, story, or entertainment— to the picture. If you know that a joke was added only for a laugh and also that it holds up the action, use the blue pencil. Out with itl The screen-play writer must