Fans of Jane Schoenbrun's vibey, tragic Sundance hit I Saw the TV Glow are in for a treat. Thanks to Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series, you can now read and download Schoenbrun's beautiful screenplay for free from your home, favorite coffee shop, are anywhere else with WiFi that you love downloading your favorite PDFs from. I Saw the TV Glow is a special, unique movie that's loaded to the brim with deep metaphors and striking visuals, some of which are horrific. Whether it's the eerie site of the show-within-the-movie Pink Opaque's villains—the ice cream cone-headed Mr. Melancholy, for instance—or Justice Smith's Owen physically deteriorating throughout his life from repressing his sexual identity, I Saw The TV Glow takes the eerie tone she established in her debut feature We're All Going to the World's Fair and cranks it to 11. For aspiring screenwriters, this is an especially cool and useful script to read. Ever wondered how to format for the passage of time? What about queuing a reader for a fantasy reality versus the bleak reality we live in? How do you describe a monster with an ice cream cone for a head? The screenplay for I Saw the TV Glow can answer all of these questions and many more. From a writing perspective, I Saw the TV Glow is also dense with visual and contextual metaphors and might be my favorite script of the year. I particularly related to the idea of being quiet and shy and not feeling comfortable...
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