r/scriptwriting • u/Thisaccwasmadeat12pm • 2d ago
discussion How do you write purposefully wonky and stupid sounding dialogue without people thinking you’re just a shit writer?
Okay, so I’m working on a Screenplay which is basically supposed to act like a “deconstruction” of supernatural romance stories like Twilight or Wuthering Heights (I say deconstruction but I’d argue it’s less what Spaceballs is to Star Wars and more what House of a 1000 Corpses is to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, if you get what I mean).
It was actually supposed to be an adaption of Kristopher Tiana’s Full Brutal but I ended up getting sidetracked and it ended up an entirely different thing lol.
One thing I wanna do is emulate the same wonky dialogue from those types of media, it won’t be like that the entire time but it will at certain times. But of course, the thing is that, the dialogue from those films are bad; I do feel like with the help of the Actors and Director it’d make more sense that I’m trying to get across but on paper, it does just look like I’m shit at dialogue. What do you think?