I am writing a script for a movie. I got a couple books on scriptwriting for Christmas to help me make the perfect Hollywood movie, or at least have the qualities I want in a movie. A book told me about CeltX, a free piece of software for scriptwriting, so I downloaded it. I want this to be a movie the whole family can enjoy. And by that, I don't mean "children's movie." So many companies throw around the term "family movie" as something only kids enjoy. I want this to be a movie kids AND adults can enjoy. In fact the only thing that would be objectable in my movie so far (and I intend to keep it that way) is two people get shot. Why does poor Scott need to get shot? It's a vital piece of the plot. For you see, it's a movie about a police officer who gets killed in the line of duty and comes back as a piece of fried shrimp. So what do I title this? At first in my mind, I toy around with such bland titles as "Shrimp Cop," and since the part I've written so far is really zany, I must think of a zany title to match it. Then it comes to me: "Rabbit Turds In My Oatmeal." Non sequiturs are zany. So how long should this movie be? My book says the average screenplay is 100-110 pages long, so that's what I intend to do, although I want the movie to only be about an hour long. So in summary, I want a movie for people with short attention spans that is really weird in a funny sort of way. Right now I'm just doing this for fun, I'm not really going to submit this to movie companies and hire an agent and all that stuff. Or maybe I will. Depends on if I complete the script first off. It's only 8 pages long, and half of that was done today. I seem to have so many projects going on that I forget about some. Like that Super Mario Bros. 3 comic book I was drawing. I drew 3 pages today because I forgot about it. I have been writing fake episodes of a fake show I made up, and they are usually about 30 pages long. I read somewhere that one average page of a script should take between 45 seconds and one minute's time up. If that's true, my movie will be about an hour and a half long if I intend to go through with the 100-110 page limit. I got Puzzle Bobble Vs. for the N-Gage in the mail today. It only cost me $9 ($5 + $4 shipping. I doubt it really cost $4 to ship a small box, but oh well.) Surprised to find out that there is no classic arcade mode, which is disappointing, so all my future Bust-A-Move playing time will go to the 3DS version. At least the N-Gage game works.



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So, a full-length movie is 100-110 pages since it's 100-110 minutes. If you'd like your film to be 60 minutes long, then you've just saved yourself 40-50 pages of pain.
If you don't believe it, I recommend reading any publicly posted screenplay (there are tons out there). Back to the Future reads in about 2 hours. Die Hard reads in about 2 hours. So, the 1 minute per page rule is actually surprisingly accurate.
Oh, and Celtx is a really good program; I recommend it for screenwriting.