Definitions for Screenplay
ˈskrinˌpleɪScreen·play

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1. screenplay(noun)

   a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets

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1. screenplay(Noun)

   a script for a movie or a television show

Origin: screen + play

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1. Screenplay

   A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film or television program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated. A play for television is also known as a teleplay.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Screenplay in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Screenplay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Screenplay in a Sentence

1. Bernard Cohen:

   I didn’t have anything in writing. It was all verbal. I didn’t even ask for a part, but I said, ‘When it wins Best Original Screenplay, I want a thank you, and I want you to finance my next film.’.

2. Superintendent Ken Wallace:

   One day a few weeks ago, one of the assistants was going through a filing cabinet and found a file that had a manuscript from 'The Breakfast Club' dated Sept. 21, 1983, it's a first draft of the screenplay by John Hughes.

3. Ralph Fiennes:

   I received this fantastic screenplay...and about 20 minutes into the film it's written that he (Harry) gets up and dances and expresses himself completely through dancing, i've never been asked to do that in a film before so I said, 'Yes, thank you'.

4. George Clooney:

   The genesis of the screenplay [ came when ] I was watching a lot of [ Trump ] speeches on the campaign trail about building fences and scapegoating minorities, and I started looking around at other times in our history when we’ve unfortunately fallen back into these things, and I found this story that happened in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

5. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon:

   Sorry, I am not submitting a quotation, but asking for one. In the film adaptation streamed for one season, a few years ago, Kelsey Grammar played the lead. Toward the end of the last installment, his daughter, when responding to her father's question about business she might want to go into, she said something like show business is the only business. I'd like to get it right. Can you send me the conversation with that response? Don't know if it was taken directly from the book or if it was in the screenplay only. Thank you so much in advance, for any help you might have on this.

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