You’re dying to know what that innovation is, right? Okay, let’s do it. Even if it means killing those closest to him. And when real threats do surface, he’ll do anything to keep his gold. He’s so obsessed with his barrel of gold and so convinced that the next guy is around the corner, plotting to steal it, that he becomes more protective of it than he does his own family. Elsbeth isn’t so sure, but Abner’s dogged determination to make something of his life eventually convinces her. Abner will build an entire town that the brand new railroad will run through. He’s finally in the game.Ībner moves his family up to Wyoming where he puts his grand plan into motion. But that’s the last thing on Abner’s mind. Sure, there are four dead men laying by it, all of whom killed each other over the stash. While working for 2 dollars a day clearing land, Abner lucks out when he finds a barrel of gold in the nearby forest. Unfortunately, Abner’s been stuck in a string of low-paying jobs that eventually brings him to the Trans-Continental railroad. And back then, the only way to make money was to have money (actually, that hasn’t changed). He’s got a beautiful wife, Elspeth, and a handsome little boy, Benjamin, who he plans to bring along on this journey. He’s an ambitious man who wants to take advantage of a country that’s still in its infancy. But first, let’s learn what this script is about.ģ0-something Abner Ellis is a lot like Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood. Rios is a such a snazzy writer, he even innovated the format. However, we don’t have to deal with the cumbersome mass of text that usually accompanies that kind of connective writing. With a continuous writing style, we jump down to a new paragraph, and yet we’re still within the same thought, action, or description. The problem with walls of text is that they’re daunting and readers feel overwhelmed by them. The only benefit of “wall of text” writing is that the sentences visually connect one after another so it feels like one continuous thought. On top of that, he uses a “continuous style.” A continuous style continues sentences and paragraphs even after a line break, sometimes bypassing capitalization in order to keep your eyes moving. His writing is descriptive, but always stays on point, rarely eclipsing 3 lines. First off, he grounds that style in the format’s most dependable approach – SIMPLICITY. Let The Evil Go West is one of the coolest written scripts of 2016. They’re so confident in themselves that they’ll stand in one place, barely say a word, and let the party come to them. On the flip side, good writers are like Andy Warhol. He’s got nothing of substance going on so the only way to get your attention is to yell and scream and jump in the pool several times. The pretender is like the annoying guy at the party. One of the things you become keen on when you read a lot of scripts is knowing when you’re reading a writer and when you’re reading a pretender. Screenwriter Carlos Rios is an alumni of Universal’s Emerging Writer’s Fellowship, which is becoming a hotbed for finding strong emerging talent. That implies that it was passed around due to the quality of the script alone – a rarity. Let the Evil Go West is one of the few scripts that made the list bare naked. These days, many Black List scripts come already optioned or purchased, or, at the very least, campaigned for. Premise: When a poor but ambitious family man finds a barrel of gold, he attempts to follow his dreams without allowing his greed to drive him insane.Ībout: This script finished in the middle of the pack on last year’s Black List. This needs to become a mainstay in all scripts going forward! Today’s writer makes one of the snazziest minor innovations to the screenwriting format I’ve seen since I started reading.
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