Scriptnotes on euphemism

This episode of Scriptnotes talks about the various words people use in scripts to refer to a certain group of people. I think this is an important thing to talk about because there are many different names for groups of people and you want to make sure you use the correct ones. This is especially to make sure you don’t offend anybody with your words. Especially when it comes to groups like Jews, Christians, African Americans, and Mexicans. They also talked about something called “single use characters” which I’m guessing are characters that are only used for one single use in the story or only appear in one scene. They are basically similar to background characters. Then there is the question they ask of “if screenwriting standards are so high, then why are so many bad movies made?” I think the answer to that is simply that so many people do scriptwriting incorrectly or just have no talent whatsoever to do it. I don’t that as an insult but as a learning lesson to do screenwriting the right way. And that I think is the best way to do things. That way we don’t have so many Uwe Boll’s or Ed woods.