I spent all last night reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson, and as such, didn't take the time to do this. I also missed last Sunday. So here's 3 days rolled into one. I decicded to look at an outline, a step sheet, and a treatment.
Twilight (outline) by Melissa Rosenberg
It's better on the page than it is on the screen. What's interesting about this is that all the scenes and some of the dialogue is there. It's 29 pages long and it's almost all text. You really do get a sense of the main characters and some of the secondary characters. I was really surprised to see that the scene headings were there.
Chinatown (step sheet) by Robert Towne
This seems to be organized around important dialogue in that particular step. This was only 10 pages long, so obviously it wasn't nearly as detailed. It's basically the story broke down into steps. In the margins are handwritten numbers which I am assuming are the page count for that step. One of the step is of course called "She's my daughter...She's my sister."
The Thing II (Treatment) by Garry A. Piazza
It's basically the story, with a cliffhanger ending. It's 6 pages long. The story would be fine, if it didn't add the character of the alien bounty hunter. The thing that that made The Thing so great was that it was humans against a superior alien force and the only reason the alien didn't win, was because they were in the middle of the arctic, so it had no where to go without a host. If you add an alien with super-technology, you kinda miss the point.
http://www.mypdfscripts.com/treatments/twilight-outline
http://www.mypdfscripts.com/treatments/chinatown-step-sheet
http://www.mypdfscripts.com/treatments/the-thing-ii-treatment
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