Introducing Scrippets
Screenwriter John August came up with “Scrippets,” a Wordpress plugin which allows for properly formatted script excerpts to appear in a Wordpress post. Check out how it looks below, using a scene from John August’s GO.
INT. RUNDOWN SUPERMARKET - DAY
A cash drawer slides shut.
On the far side of the checkout stand, a STRINGY HAIRED WOMAN counts food stamps. Her eyes are sunken, black. She’s got a screaming BABY on her arm and two rambunctious BOYS in the cart. They’re wearing pajamas and raincoats.
It’s five a.m. and the store is almost empty.
Containers of frozen orange juice spin endlessly on the conveyor belt. Ronna Martin -- the girl in the ditch -- is bagging groceries.
RONNA
Paper or plastic?
She wears a green apron with a red “Yule Save More” button.
RONNA
Paper or plastic?
She’s been working for fourteen hours, and it shows. Her intonation doesn’t change at all.
RONNA
Paper or plastic?
STRINGY HAIRED WOMAN
Both.
Finally satisfied she has all her stamps, the Woman starts looking through the receipt. In the cart, the boys knock gum from the stand.
STRINGY HAIRED WOMAN
You didn’t double my coupons.
RONNA
They’re at the bottom. In red. Where it says, double coupons.
She finishes one bag and starts another. The Woman is watching her carefully.
STRINGY HAIRED WOMAN
You can’t do that. You can’t put Windex in the same bag as food. It’s poison.
Ronna fishes out the Windex and makes a big show of wrapping it in a plastic bag.
STRINGY HAIRED WOMAN
Don’t think you’re something you’re not. I used to have your job.
Ronna puts the bag in the cart. Looks her dead in the eye.
RONNA
Look how far it got you.
Pretty cool, right? I will be using Scrippets to highlight popular scenes from movies so you can see how they were written before they were filmed.
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