How To Write Your Own Award Winning Screenplay!

I'm a pretty instinctive writer if it wasn't already apparent, so I took this article pretty deep in the head. Want to pitch a movie and back it to be visually appealing? You gotta have some of these elements:

-Complexity. Okay Joel, that's a given, but let me elaborate. Your characters can't be 1 dimensional. They need to have a motive, but they need to have realistic (not too much now) reactions and not be based on two or three models of expression. On top of that, this applies to the plot as well. You need multiple issues to solve. A movie with a single obvious goal just won't cut  it.

-Break the mold. Be creative with how you sequence everything. Do all songs have the same structure? Sure, many follow a formula, but there's a countless number of others that are unique. Same with movies. Don't make it expected. Keep your actions and events fresh and engaging without tying it to perfectly come to a close. That's what your generic movies do, and they don't win the awards.

-The setting sets it up for the kill. You know what made the Lord of the Rings work the most as a movie? The setting. Middle earth is a setting you can only get from one place, and Tolkien pretty much made us all know what fantasy literature is, so it can knock out the genre too. Your setting is responsible for what the characters can do and how dramatic the story can be. Don't limit it!

As I absolutely love analyzing movies, what does it for me most is when I see things that weren't anticipated, or structures that break normality. I watched L.A. Confidential last Friday. Excellent film. Had a couple cliches, but it made up with the fantastic amount of originality the writers used. The structure was dynamic and unpredictable, and the twists came out of nowhere. That's quality filming.

We need way more of this theory in our movies too, including low budget or indie movies. It shouldn't be divided over a line with "Famed director legendary score epic masterpiece" and "Cliche cop drama with romance subplot."

Are there any hidden gems that may hold this idea of film making yet to be uncovered by IMDb? I'll have to check back on that.