Reading a screenplay is arguably as much a creative and
imaginative process as writing one, and it often seems to me that
Australian screenplay writing is frustrated and adversely affected by
the impoverishment of its readers. Reading action and light, pace and
tone is always a challenge and even more so in a script. When the reader
creates emotion in their head, or gets the subtle ambiguity of the
subtext, or catches the unspoken, unseen implication of this action with
that action as they cross from one scene to the next, they should
reserve at least as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer
- perhaps more. And the best writers always write in such a way that
they allow a good part of the story to be imagined by the audience.
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