Word: screenplays
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Hindley set out to tell a tale proving that “families aren’t necessarily connected by bloodlines.” Originally a screenplay, she said Grace was being shopped around movie studios in Los Angeles when she decided to turn it into a novel. “A Christmas story about a gay couple doesn’t make it in Los Angeles,” she said...
Despite working with many of the same people from Amélie, Jeunet points out several key differences between the films. Unlike Amélie, this film is a period piece, his first film on a large scale and an adaptation rather than an original screenplay...
...contrast, with scenes in and around Walter’s apartment and at his job appearing drab and gray, while scenes in the park with Robin are filled with color. The supporting cast skillfully depicts the various attitudes of outsiders toward Walter’s sickness. And though the screenplay (written by Kassell and Steven Fechter) occasionally overreaches with a few contrived lines and overwrought symbols, it seamlessly crafts the complex, raw story and invites an audience reaction as conflicted as the emotions of the characters themselves...
...that the US had “taken a leading role in efforts to protect the Rwandan people” is the worst lie that administration ever told. Rusesabagina says that most Americans fled the country in the opening days of the slaughter. George masterfully crafts a screenplay that highlights the United States’ complicity...
...Harvard crew heavyweight Keir Pearson ’90 learned from a journalist friend how Rusesabagina risked his own life to save hundreds of others from near-certain slaughter. The story piqued the interest of Belfast-born filmmaker Terry George, a one-time Oscar nominee best known for the screenplay In the Name of the Father (1993). George searched for a Hollywood studio that would bring Rusesabagina’s story to the silver screen. But several top Hollywood execs refused to put their money behind the film. “They all thought it was a good script...