The key to writing a great story is solid characterisation and dialogue that sizzles rather than carrying the plot. This is a skill that comes from practise which is evident in the first of the three volumes of the screenplays that Robbie Moffat has written and made into feature films. They give an insight into how a screenplay is written and how a film-maker interprets the word on the page. For anyone who is a budding screenwriter, this volume covers many different genres and give a valuable insight into how to write a script that is makeable.
This first volume of Selected Screenplays covers the ten feature films that Robbie Moffat wrote and made in the period 1999 to 2006. The book offers an invaluable insight into the world of screenwriting by one of Britain's most prolific film-makers.
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Check out this great interview by Writer, Robbie Moffat on the first screenplay in the collection 'LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH' AKA 'THOUSANDS LIKE US'
The Loving, set in another age, in a gone-world of yesteryear, when war and plague were everywhere, when relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.
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The sequel to THE LOVING set in the wilds of Kerry and the meadows of Meath.
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The Loving Few takes up where the story left us in The Loving and The Loving Child, in a gone-world of yesteryear, when there was war and plague everywhere, and relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.
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The sequel to The Loving,The Loving Child, and The Loving Few, a gone-world of yesteryear, when there was war and plague everywhere, when relationships were cut-short by death, illness and madness.
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Two young Brits and a Japanese adventurer are caught up in the outbreak in Juba of The Green Monkey disease in October 1976. (The killer virus later was recorded as the first outbreak of Ebola.) At the time, Sudan was still recovering from its seventeen-year civil war, Uganda was under the dictatorship of Idi Amin, the borders with Kenya were closed, and the area had been inaccessible for six months due to the rains.
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In 1988 migrant workers in North West Iceland survive on alcohol and sex while processing fish. A modern classic to rival Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
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This novel is about two young punks travelling in South America in 1978. Their views on money, freedom, travelling, the getting away from reality, music, poetry, youth movements, hippies, punks and drugs. Its what some kids of their age do with their lives, before they get married, mortgaged and chained. Some of them don’t make it that far..
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A history of the Haggis - but just that noble Highland variety of the creature that roams the mists of the north and west of Scotland eating the white heather, but the lesser known Lowland Haggis - a breed of haggis that has until recently been viewed as an aggressive and temperamental kind of beastie. GET INFORMED. JOIN THE HAGGIS. PRESERVATION SOCIETY BY READING THIS BOOK.
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Louis met Christine at a party and fell in love. He had always fancied himself as a writer, but from the moment he starts hanging out with Christine, he discovers she is a genius of invention and imagination. Inside Christine's head is a whole world she is managing to write down, yet none of it is commercial. She keeps
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This story is about faith, ignorance, denial and revenge. In parts it is about unity, common purpose, and triumphalism. However, it is also about sadistic nature, power gone wrong, and retribution. For this kind of story is for an audience obsessed with religious wrong-doing, its hypocrisy and its secrets. If there is a moral, then it must be that the reader following the actions of our heroine understand why she is compelled to commit the same acts that have been perpetrated on her. Only after such deeds are done, when the meaning of compassion is fully understood, can our heroine change the course of her life and of those that she leads.
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This story is no romance. Its brutal, gruesome, horrible and totally indefensible. However, it is action, misadventure and things gone wrong, and as such, it is a story about mayhem and murder.
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A novella of the film Love The One You’re With, a story about a wealthy young businessman who is temporarily reduced to poverty over a long weekend, after leaving all his credit cards and his briefcase in his towed away car. He becomes dependent on a young homeless girl trying to go straight. Made into a feature film in the year 2000.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. The story of the biggest manhunt ever mounted that turns into the greatest escape story in British history.
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This book contains the entire output of Robbie Moffat’s poetry from 1974 to present day.
His work is infused with foreign places and a deep tenderness for his native Scotland. He is a poet of places, people, landscapes and nature. His work is peppered with emotion, humour and biting satire. He also expresses his inner struggles and his personal doubts about his own contribution to humanity. There is always optimism, a romantic point of view, belief that all will be well in the end. He has a magnetic personality, and an insatiable appetite for friendship, love and life. This book reveals to us that he is a poet for our times.
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UNIVERSAL BEING - A masterpiece poem of more than one thousand quatrains. The structure is very simple - it doesn't take much mental application to use Roget's Thesaurus as a source - but by exhausting Roget's lexicons, Moffat shows that the limitation of the English language makes it impossible to explain away the universe. THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR ALL SERIOUS POETRY READERS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS.
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The collected poetry works of Robbie Moffat from 1974 to 2020. This new fourth edition contains the poet's work previously omitted and his poems composed during 2020.
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The tale of a love-sick fool who cannot bring himself to accept that the girl, whom he adores, does not adore him. His notion of love is a romantic ideal that is made absurd
by his pathetic behaviour.”
Once again it is delight to put Pillock back in print. It is light, airy and frivolous, and who says that we need more of that in today’s world. I certainly think we do – for even after
twenty-two years Pillock still has a naïve charm about it however clumsy the execution may be.
I have moved on in life but the poem still gives me a snapshot of my emotions during the months I spent in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia between January and April 1988. I hope you find some value in it – the discovery of paradise and the loss of it happens to us all
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At the age of seventeen, the Wanderer leaves Scotland to discover the world and himself. He passes through seven European states, sleeping where he can, learning what he will, before returning home to his own people. However, it is seventeen years later that the Wanderer finally returns to his native city for good. He wishes to re-establish contact with his former childhood friend and arranges to meet him in a bistro in the most bohemian part of the city.
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The following poems are works that don’t appropriately fit into any collection.
They are in this sense one-offs and have no unifying theme. Nevertheless they do exist and it is only fair to the poems (or rather the fact that I spent the time to compose them) that they should be collected together to form an unconnected
Whole.
Hence the name DISCONNECTED.
The poems cover the period 1986-96 and the places I lived during that time -Newcastle, Somerset, Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and finally Argyll where I abandoned poetry for a life in film.
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A novella of the film Got To Run.
Present day. Sarah McGuire, a travelling sales woman is off on a trip up north to sell her boss’s latest range of lingerie stock Unhappy in her current relationship with a car mechanic, she sets off with a mind to change her life for the better. She is good at her job but is unfulfilled. To alleviate her daily boredom she runs to orchestral music. Running is her one real pleasure in life.
A chance meeting in a pub while drunk furnishes her with a list of ten beautiful places to go running in Britain. Initially, the places are on route between her sales assignments, but finally Sarah has to make the decision to get off the beaten track and go on the run.
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Dick and Harry Bridges are newly married and Dick has organised their honeymoon getaway as a do-it-yourself cruise on a West Midland backwater canal.
Harry, a girl of means, is crestfallen at the cheapness of Dick’s honeymoon plans but soon starts to like the carefree world of canal life when Dick employs Tom, a local pikey, to help steer them through the gates and locks.
Meanwhile, Dick has employed Sunshine an incompetent hit-man to kill his wife so he can collect on her life insurance, but the presence of Tom complicates Sunshine’s attempts to do away with her.
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1815 England. Shipwrecked off Ireland and landed at Watchet Harbour, Somerset - Esmeralda Grimm and her half-sister Fancy, set out on the final leg of their journey home to the House of Grimm. Stumbling upon a coven of witches in a ruined church, they flee for their lives and take refuge in a deserted tavern. Befriended by an amorous yokel, they awake to discover their horses stolen.
Left to cross the wild hills by foot, they are overtaken by a storm and are forced to take refuge in a ditch with a tinker whose tales about the Beast of the Moor make their night sleepless. Reaching Grimm Manor the following day, they are reacquainted with their estranged relatives – great aunt Augusta (Lady Grimm), second cousin Leopold, first cousin Wilberforce, and step-sister Evangelista.
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In the autumn of 573AD, the eight-year civil war that divides the Celtic nations in post Romano-Britain ends at the battle of Arthuret. The Celtic armies disband and the warriors return to their homes, but the losses to the combined Celtic forces are so great that the immigrants from Germania- the Angles, who settled along the North Sea coast, boldly send raiding parties into the heart of the Celtic homelands.
Fingal a Celtic mercenary soldier is returning home to his Roman wife, Lillian, who lives with his people of Caledon. Weighed down by his travel bags full of the treasures of war, he rescues the Jewish slave girl, Jessica from her Angle captors.
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AD 575 – a shipwrecked band of Romans are escorting the reluctant widow called Hennini to her destination beyond Hadrian’s Wall, where she must marry the mercenary chieftan Cathen. While crossing the Wall the Roman’s are attacked by a roving ban of Angle soldiers and Hennini is abducted.
Meanwhile Fingal has fallen on hard times. He is so poor that he can’t even afford oxen to pull his plough, so when he finds Hennini’s husband-to-be offering him money to search for the abducted bride, Fingal accepts the challenge.
While searching the countryside Fingal and Cahten’s man Domal come upon the shipwrecked Greek monk Regulus (Oliver Cotton). He is searching for Hennini because she has in her keeping the bones of St Andrew, the first Apostle of Christ.
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The third of the series of Fingal tales set in Caledonia around 575AD, in which the hero’s father in law Roderick decides to make himself king of Strathclyde. Fingal opposes him but is overwhelmed and sold to the captain of a party of seafarers associated with Fingal’s enemies, the Angles.
However, Egil, the leader of the seafarers is no Angle – he is a Dane, and proud of it. On the voyage across the Germanic Sea, Fingal tries to capture the ship, but fails. Admiring Fingal’s fighting qualities, Egil agrees to free him on return to the Daneland on the condition that he marries his sister Hronn and that when called upon, he will fight for the Daneland. Fingal is made to give his word-bond.
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Harry Gillespie, book keeper for gangsters, skims money from each of his clients and escapes to a remote Scottish fishing village with Ebony, an Edinburgh tart he has befriended. Through Harry, Ebony soon discovers it is only a matter of time before Harry is tracked down and heavies are sent to get him. She tries to convince him that they should run away to Cuba, but Harry is reluctant to leave the country. Day by Day Harry's past catches up with him. Bingo, a Glaswegian racketeer, arrives and tortures Harry until he agrees to return the money. In a rowing boat fight, Harry and Ebony drown Bingo and bury him in the dunes. It is only a matter of time before Harry is found and dealt with, But Harry and Ebony surprise themselves when they make sure that none of their pursuers return to the mainland.
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Minnie and Ernest Tucker, mid twenties, brother and sister, live on a moorland farm in Somerset. The farm has failed and they make a meagre living taking stray bed and breakfast guests. When a couple, Ben and Carol from London book in for the night, Ernest takes a dislike to Ben being much older than his girlfriend and kills him with an axe. Carol flees, but Ernest catches her and kills her with a pitchfork. Seven Crosses, set in rural West Country England, is a tale of brother and sisterly love gone wild.
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Helen and Sylvia, friends from New York, arrive in San Antonio and hire a car to look for Helen's brother Frank who has been missing for four years. His last contact - a postcard he had sent to Helen from a Buddhist monastery - stated that he was 'searching for something and would know when he had found it'.
They go in search of one of their missing brother in the Scottish Highlands, but get more than they bargained for when they stumble upon a strange community.
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Present day, England. Iris and Lily Nelson, living in a large house near an army camp, are the daughters of an ex- colonel- in chief. Entertaining the camp's non commissioned officers, their latest drinking buddies are Mitch, Bobby and Danny who are preparing to leave for a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
When Mitch proposes to Iris, the sisters are apprehensive that Mitch will discover and then report to police that they have locked their brother Henry in a cell in the basement and that they have kept him there for eight years. Meanwhile, Henry having found a way to escape from his cell, stalks and savage kills a solder. this sparks off a murder hunt headed by inspector Arun.
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A four person crew are sent to bring back a mothballed ship parked at the back of Pluto. Arriving on the ship the astronauts soon discover that the ship is no ordinary cruiser but that it contains layers of levels and unusual leisure facilities.
Their journey to the bridge leads them to a swimming pool, a church and cocktail bar. They are also unnerved by the religious symbolism of the ship- on entry they were greeted with the sign God Be With You as though the ship had some other purpose. As the four meander around the ship the crew member Caroli accidentally pushes a button which begins the ships engines. The Captain, Sceptra feels obliged to work out where the ship is destined. Before long the only scientist on the crew, Kraz works out that the ship is destined to discover the ends of the Universe.
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The early life of Robbie Moffat, poet, novelist, playwright, and film-maker.
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