"Except for the dialogues, it is 90 percent finished."

Aren't the dialogs usually the majority of the script? So the portion that is 90% finished is the rest that isn't dialog. Hmmmm, i wonder if any of the dialog is done at all. $5000 seems pretty expensive for stage cues, prop lists, costume notes, etc. for no actual script!

Ooooooh! Such fun! Look at this auction that the same person sold recently. :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=4576667995

Must be he/she was finished reading it already and learned everything there was to know!

Oh man that's funny! Did you see the sticker on the book cover:

"...new chapter on screenwriting and computers"

I wonder what the book says on how to sell your screenplay?

I sent a message to the seller asking how much dialog was done. Here's the response:

Response from minia-zhure

What a joke!

"90% UNFINISHED SCRIPT"

"Except for the dialogues, it is 90 percent finished."

He's no better at math than he is at screenwriting.

> my main working title is Judas of Nazareth

Wow, you think it will be as good as "The Life of Brian?" (What's so... funny about 'Biggus Dickus'?) ;-) NOT!

~jr

Seeing that spoof movie trailer on "Shining" made me wonder if someone could take footage from "The Passion of The Christ" and create a trailer that made it look like a film about fame and fortune, called "Passion.".

Oh yeah [additional edit] to answer the question, I vote for insane.

DSE, stop. Im trying to make a buck here. Just kidding. That auction is quite crazy. The idiot who actually pays $5k for a script that 15% done is stupid. How can the script be tailored to Stiller or Black when it isnt even written yet?

The dude would have been better off just selling advertising space on his forehead. Furthermore, how can his script be copyrighted if it isnt even finished? Insane?Inspired? More like idiotic.

Syd Fields book is actually pretty standard for film schools and such. It has been years since I had the book and I can't remember what it said about selling...if anything at all. So much has changed now that it is no suprise it has been updated for computers. There did not used to be software programs that formated everthing for you let alone this whole DIY film making concept done on computers.

To answer Spots question - I would say Inspired. Look at the recent thread about the fake promo for "Shinning". Without the internet none of this would be out there. ..lots and lots of talent who would go unknown because of their lack to secure personal agents, managers, lawyers and so on. Now you can pop almost anything up on the internet somewhere and get attention. I used to live next door to a screenwriter, he used to sit at his typewriter and chruin out scritps...after about his 6th one he said if it did not sell he was packing it in and moving back home. They were good ideas...and he was flying solo on it. He would send them out and get them all back. Had he been doing this today I have no doubt he would be using the internet to try and get his name and work out there and I have no doubt he would have sold some, if not all, of his scripts.

Read a book, become an expert!

"... if you have confidence in your work or product it is priceless..... yeah, you're right, only about 10 % of the dialogue is written, but if you have an inner knowledge of the workings of literary materials, you will know that dialogue constitutes just a fragment of the whole story...what is important is the structure itself, its lead, middle and last parts that form the vital components of a novel or story....am asking for $5 thou?...as i've said i've got great confidence in my work and the potential it entails....besides, did you know that titles and loglines (made up of a couple of sentences) alone, has already been sold in the past?.. and in enormous amounts at that!"

I asked him about selling an "unfinished" script for $5k.

What's so bloody special about the cheesemakers?

It's not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.