Word: screenplays
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...trying to sell shows an almost embarrassing lack of novelistic flair, whereas the story the conspiracy theorists tell about what happened on Sept. 11 is positively Dan Brownesque in its rich, exciting complexity. Rowe and his collaborator, Dylan Avery, 22, actually started writing Loose Change as a fictional screenplay--"loosely based around us discovering that 9/11 was an inside job," Rowe says--before they became convinced that the evidence of conspiracy was overwhelming. The Administration is certainly playing its part in the drama with admirable zeal. If we went to war to root out fictional weapons of mass destruction...
...haven't seen this screenplay, but I'd bet handsomely that, on the whole, it doesn't read as funny as it plays. Talladega Nights is a comedy based more in the nuance of the moment than in the power of the punch line. Like Ferrell's Elf, it's not a movie of sight gags and set-ups, but a measured comedy that keeps a steady simmer while poking fun at the quirks of American characters and culture. It's smarter than your average summer comedy, and also a bit shrewder...
...whole, the director, Michael Mann (who also wrote the screenplay), is in a grittier mood than he was in the days when Vice was a sensational TV presence. And he does not have a taste here for the muted tones that made Collateral so seductive in 2004. He's more in the dark-of-night Heat mode. He uses high-definition (HD) digital cameras, since HD imparts more visual information than film stock, especially in low light. In terms of cinematography, Mann may embody the future of large-scale commercial movies...
...such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation, he is off to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry—a plan of action he jokingly calls...
...hated country music,” she says. She had been raised with Motown and soul beats, but she discovered listening to country allowed her to concentrate.The “breakthrough experience,” she said, was when she had to type a 100-page screenplay for a North House seminar. “At first I started listening to it as a joke, and then I fell in love.”She found connections between the metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit?...