A website that features film scripts of movies that are rewritten in a mocking manner for comedic effect. It was founded by Rod Hilton in 1998, and is still going strong to this day.
Common Tropes associated are:
- The Abridged Series: The scripts are essentially an abridged series for movies.
- Accentuate the Negative: He can be mocking even of films that he really did like.
- Actor Allusion: Actors will make fun of each other by referencing each other's past roles.
- Bat Deduction: How Sherlock Holmes is depicted in Sherlock Holmes.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The author has demonstrated a lot of in depth knowledge of various religions and cultures.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Did Not Do the Research: Sometimes averted, but Hilton still gets the facts confused or misinterprets a plot device, and thus ends up misrepresents the films sometimes.
- Downer Ending: Lampshaded in the Winter's Bone script:
JOHN HAWKES: Yeah, this ending is getting a little too happy. This is an Indie movie, your options are
bittersweet or fucking miserable.
- Genre Savvy: The cast in the scripts tend to be aware of the genre they're in and will state the role they fill in the movie.
- Insane Troll Logic: How Robert Langdon's methods of finding each element location is depicted in Angels and Demons. Subverted for the water element:
AYELET ZURER: Wait let me try one. Okay, so this guy was chained up… chains are often used for construction work… the fourth cardinal is at a construction site!
TOM HANKS: What? Don’t be stupid. The fourth element is water, so he’s in a fountain.
- Mineral MacGuffin: Called "Macguffium" in the Avatar script and "Plotresolvium" in Chronicle.
- No Fourth Wall: The script is aware that the work is fiction, with actors dissing the movie they're in, directors arguing with the actors, and even the audience is given lines.
- Running Gag: In the Winter's Bone script, every setting is described as bleak, up to the point that one scene is described as "INT. BLEAK SHERIFF STATION, BLEAKITY BLEAK BLEAK"
- Samuel L. Jackson is listed as SAMUEL L MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON in every script he appears in.
- Script Fic: The screenplays are this combined with The Abridged Series.
- [Trope Name]: Stock characters in the script will bluntly state their role in the movie.
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