that's a really great idea, man. I'm gonna do that this weekend. thanks :-)

Greatest idea since sliced bread!

I have reconstructed screenplays from the DVD for several movies where I couldn't find a screenplay online. I'll get the dialog from the subtitles (or from online transcripts, where available) and make up my own scene headings and action lines.

To be honest, I'm not sure if it's a productive use of one's time. But I had one interesting case where I reconstructed the Tom Cruise WAR OF THE WORLDS and later found the original script online.

I compared the two, and my script wasn't very different. Just the one scene was way off. When the lightning first strikes, a crowd gathers around the hole it makes in the ground, and a cop tries to control the people. In the script the cop doesn't get a line, it just says something like "the cop tells them to keep clear." In my script, he says "Back off" with variations about thirteen times, because that's what's on the DVD. Not exactly riveting screenwriting!

Ciao from Italy! Sorry for my english: also if for me it's enough for to read your interesting suggestion, and now to write that your blog is really interesting... always I can learn more and more: great! Thanks...Now I take my courage and I write you but I don't know if you can, but..... please, why don't you "put" a link so we can read the transcript of To kill a mockingbird? Me too I love this movie Thanks ciao ciao Giulia