Word: screenplay
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...world, where political and moral tensions temper our economic relationship with other nations.Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, “Syriana” is a gritty film that traces oil corruption from the golden deserts of the Persian Gulf to Capitol Hill. Gaghan, Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Traffic,” formats the film in a similar style, choreographing the careful intersections of multiple plots and characters through common dependencies. The writing and acting manage to successfully illustrate Gaghan’s complicated themes. George Clooney quietly reveals the vulnerability of his character, disillusioned...
...ambiguity, that’s what’s so beautiful.” He sees “Brokeback Mountain” as a film that’s “deconstructing that whole theory of sexuality.” SUCH GREAT HEIGHTSThe dense, but appropriately languid screenplay for “Brokeback” is a masterful retelling of an Annie Proulx (“The Shipping News”) short story, adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The Proulx story, first appearing in a 1997 New Yorker magazine, has since become...
...Kushner could make a good, entertaining guess. Spielberg had long wanted to work with the Pulitzer prizewinning author of Angels in America, and once he had solved Kushner's concerns about formatting a screenplay ("I said, 'Well, there's a program called Scriptor--put it on your laptop and you don't have to worry about that again'"), Kushner said he would try a few scenes. They became a 300-page first draft, written largely on spec, after which he and Spielberg happily collaborated for a little more than a year to complete the script. "You speak the words...
...Miserables.” Either would have been preferable to Columbus’ middle-of-the-road approach: “Rent”’s schizophrenic shifts between dramatic scenes and musical set pieces are better suited to Bollywood than Hollywood.Steven Chbosky’s screenplay also disappoints. He does little more than transcribe the musical’s libretto: almost all of the film’s dialogue—even that which is not sung—rhymes. This gives the movie an unfortunate Seussian feel, and drains the tension from the film?...
...Japanese film derives much of its strength from its claustrophobic confinement to a horrendous time and place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mch Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they...