Script File

TENNESSEE WALTZ

At the close of her daughter's wedding night Marilyn casts her thoughts back to that night when her own life took a sad turn on another dance floor.

A spec music video script to accompany the classic song.

  • Alan Taylor
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    2
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Alan Taylor

Lecturer since London Film School - EU, UK, Sth Afica

Add Writer Biography
Writer Statement

The task was to find a specific location and character whose memories and reflections spiraled - like an inner waltz. 💃

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd
- The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible;
nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been;
regret over not being someone else;
dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.
All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape,
an eternal sunset of what we are.”

Fernando Pessoa

And the waltz is always an appealing challenge for filmmakers...each one pirouettes on the shoulders of giants.