Ugur Akinci

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101 Ways to Write and Finish Your Screenplay

1. Visualize what the opening shot of your film should be. 2. Decide what your Inciting Incident will be. 3. Decide on your Plot Point 1. 4. Find a Mid Point in which the flow of events reverse themselves. 5. Decide on your Plot Point 2. 6. Decide what your ending will be and write from the end towards the beginning. 7. Have a conflict in every scene you write. Otherwise don’t write it. 8.... (posted by Ugur 4 years 190 days ago.)
Movie Review – Battle of the Bulge (1965)

A two hours and forty five minutes long WW2 classic. Go and rent the DVD right away if you like these kind of movies and you still haven't seen it. (WARNING: This review contains plot spoilers!) “Battle of the Bulge" is the way they used to shoot those mega-epic WW2 good-against-evil and us-against-Nazis type films in which you had either Robert Ryan or Robert Mitchum starring because... (posted by Ugur 4 years 362 days ago.)
Operating Systems - Linux or Windows? Long Live UBUNTU!

As I'm writing these words, DELL has decided to ship some of its new models with Linux's UBUNTU's 7.04 “Feisty Fawn" distribution . (Windows have OS releases or versions like XP or Vista; Linux has “distributions" like Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu and many others.) (posted by Ugur 4 years 362 days ago.)
7 Great Things To Do in Arizona

1) GRAND CANYON, of course! I cannot think of anything more important to do in Arizona than go see this amazing true wonder of our planet earth. This is a spectacle that you won’t believe it until you see it, no matter how many photos or videos of it you’ve seen before. When you stand there at the edge of what seems to be “The Infinity," words and time stop. Please make a special effort to be there if you haven’t... (posted by Ugur 4 years 362 days ago.)
7 Great Things to Do in Alabama

1) Anniston Museum of Natural History – Dinosaurs, African elephants and other wonders of the natural world all under one roof! Must stop in Anniston, AL for all kids young or old. 2) Old Alabama Town of Montgomery displays the magnificent collection of well-restored 19 th and early 20 th century structures in the heart of Montgomery. Don't miss the Saturday Jam Session for top-draw home-grown sweet... (posted by Ugur 4 years 362 days ago.)
Gray Hair is In, Definitely

Do you know who Jeff Chandler is? Unless you are a hard-core movie fan you wouldn't know him. He was one of the leading men of the fifties and sixties who looked equally good in uniforms and cowboy boots. And he had great salt-and-pepper gray hair. That was his distinguishing mark. In his later years Cary Grant also got the movie goers warm up to the idea that gray hair could be a cool thing indeed... (posted by Ugur 5 years 337 days ago.)