I've never noticed the single sentence approach... But I love it. What a great way to create urgency and continuation. Going to go through my scripts and see where I can use this effect. Thanks again, Scott.

Zachary, while this is an extreme example, Goldman has many similar stretches of scene description all related to action. He also does something else I love: He makes up phrases to convey action and mood. For example, there is a scene where he describes Butch in action using the term "barrel-asses" as a verb. I have no idea what it means, but it is certainly imagematic. What we can take away from this is a simple truth about scene description: As screenwriters, we can do whatever we need to do to translate the movie we see in our mind's eye into the mind's eye of the reader. There are no rules other than that. So if we need to use 1-word sentences or 293-word sentences, we can do that. If we need to make up words, we can do that. Everything in service to telling our story the best, most visual and compelling way possible.

I have always found the Cut to: transition to be distracting, especially, when all you need to do to indicate a shot change is to use lots of white space. A great example of this style of writing is The Matrix. EXT. ROOF On the roof, Trinity is running as Agent Brown rises over the parapet, leading the cops in pursuit. Trinity begins to jump from one roof to the next, her movements so clean, gliding in and out of each jump, contrasting with the wild jumps of the cops. Agent Brown, however, has the same unnatural grace. The METAL SCREAM of an EL TRAIN is heard and Trinity turns to it, racing for the back of the building. This is great action scene writing.

Concur, Trevor. In fact, I did a Scene Description Spotlight on "The Matrix" here. The shift is definitely away from directing and production lingo in selling scripts, and even shooting scripts to a much more 'literate' style.