Word: screenplays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's intellectual breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
...Directed by Pat O'Connor; Screenplay by Bernard Mac Laverty
...consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous as an invasion of nannies. The Bostonians, thankfully, sheds the genteel anemia of its precursor. Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay, and the memorable cast--Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Linda Hunt and Madeleine Potter--are responsible for the success...
Directed by W.D. Richter; Screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch...
...coldest town in the country, run by some of the dumbest rich men in the world." He stays, he says, "for the money, obviously." Screenwriters have always bitched; this cliché is true. And yet there are certain circles in which it seems that everyone is writing a screenplay. One Eastern writer who is accustomed to working for "nickels and dimes," as he puts it, was hired for ten days' work on a remake of a movie the studio in the end decided not to remake. Nonetheless, he was paid $50,000 and is still in a daze. People...