And I love that Mr. E wrote all these specs with a number 2 pencil on a yellow legal pad, then by this point in his career had someone else type them up. Then it was off to the studio for "auction." The gold rush era of spec scripts. Must have been nice.

very descriptive indeed. So glanced through the whole basic instinct script to see if it was full of 'ellipses (...)'. And I saw many, as well as a lot of 'em-dashes (--)'.

Are screenwriters taught to use these sparingly now? Because i for one love to use ellipses, and I'm always tempted to use em-dashes. But I'm seeing less and less in newer scripts.

I love the description. It's effective because it's great writing. It's incredibly sexy. It does the job very well.

And he claims to have written this script in two weeks.