What are the Elements of a Good Film? — A Screenwriter’s Perspective
4 min readMay 5, 2020
Cesare Zavattini, an Italian screenwriter, once wrote a famous piece of writing called “Some Ideas on the Cinema”, which delves into several of his notions on the nature of filmmaking. He had great significance in the cinematic and philosophical world as a theoretician of neorealism, and he often credited Antonio Gramsci’s influence on his work as well.
