![]() When that doesn’t work, Bridget must face reality: that her best friend is gone for good. In a last desperate attempt, Bridget destroys everything about Hank in front of Rae, hoping she’ll realize Hank can’t give her what Bridget can. Rae only ends up liking Hank more, which means she spends less time with Bridget. But they’re not really Bridget’s friends, as she uses them as chess pieces to try and make Rae jealous so she’ll understand how she feels and dump Hank. This liking thing has never happened before so it’s the equivalent of an atom bomb going on inside Bridget’s diaphragm.Īs Rae starts spending more and more time with Hank, Bridget is forced to find her own friends, a couple of co-workers at the publishing house, player Adam and defiant lesbian Monica. She attempts to talk some logic to her friend but that’s when Rae hits her with a terrifying truth-bomb. Taking a shower is NEVER allowed, which is how Bridget knows this is serious. That is until she goes to the bathroom one morning and HANK IS TAKING A SHOWER! She shrugs it off, uses some denial logic, and continues to spend every waking second with her best friend. That way they don’t get attached.īut Bridget is noticing that Rae’s latest guy, Hank, has been over at the apartment, err, MORE THAN THREE TIMES. ![]() The two are so inseparable, they even have a rule whereby they have to kick guys to the curb after having sex with them three times. Did I just summarize the single biggest movie character cliche in history? Not a good start!īridget is best friends with Rae, whom she’s known since they’ve been in diapers. I’m only saying, these variables factor into how people choose to read scripts.īridget is in her 30s, lives in New York, and works at a publishing house. I’m not saying you can never write your version of Dune. I’m going to pick the script that I know is going to go down easy.ĭon’t worry. And by the time I was able to sit down and work on today’s post, it was 8pm.ĭo you think I’m going to open the equivalent of Dune: Messiah under those circumstances? A 145 page tome of a gigantic universe with a million characters and a ton of mythology to learn before I can accurately understand what’s going on in the story? No way. ![]() I was running around town all day, having to do a bunch of things. You know how I know this? Cause it’s how I picked today’s script. They know they’re going to be able to get through it easily. Why? Because they know the read isn’t going to take up their entire night. When that is the case, the script they will most commonly seek out is the one that’s under 100 pages with a simple concept. These people have a pile of scripts to read. That speaks nothing to their personal lives, which also take up a lot of time, especially if they’re married with kids. And they probably have 3 or 4 fires they have to put out that day. They have meetings they have to go to that they don’t want to be in. Most people in this town – at least the ones who matter – are super busy. I’m going to take you into the mind of someone who has to read a lot of scripts for a second. ![]() The writer, Gaelyn Golde, has one produced credit for an episode of the animated TV show, Praise Petey.Īlison Brie for Bridget (since Sydney Sweeney is too young to play the part)? Premise: When her best friend since childhood falls in love and starts spending all her time with her new boyfriend, a selfish codependent career woman will do anything to get her back.Ībout: This script finished fairly high on last year’s Black List. Today I share with you the single best way to write a great ending to your script.
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