From picture to picture, how to write the screenplay

This book represents a comprehensive and integrated educational course on cinema as seen, experienced, and aspired to by Farhadi. In the first chapter titled "The Idea from the Mental Image," it reviews the foundational concerns and embryonic aesthetic approaches to the idea of the cinematic film. In the second chapter, "Starting to Write," the effort continues to create the initial nucleus of the screenplay, which, as we all know, is the birth or death certificate of the film. In the third chapter, "Sign and Symbol," Farhadi shines as a cinematic thinker closely related to some main topics in semiology of cinema. As for the fourth chapter, the author appears as a skilled film critic addressing some pivotal moments in the film "Blue" by Krzysztof Kieślowski. In the following chapter, Farhadi relies on his extensive experience in writing cinematic screenplays to discuss the main character, secondary characters, artistic character, gray characters, and the pattern, with their goals and dimensions. In the sixth chapter, Farhadi emerges as an applied critic illuminating the famous classic film "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Elia Kazan. Then, in the next chapter, he is dedicated to discussing questions of cinematic dialogue, before completing this in the eighth chapter by emphasizing the key points of the most prominent cinematic unit, the cinematic scene. In the subsequent chapter, Farhadi dedicates his insightful vision to presenting cinematic sequences and ways of employing them, then returns, in the tenth chapter, to his beloved topic: the screenplay, this time explaining how to present information within it. This is followed by valuable tips offered by the author in the context of revealing the most important elements to focus on when writing a cinematic film concept. Subtly, Farhadi completes this effort in concluding the book by including the opening of his film "Beautiful City" accompanied by an analytical vision.