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...cautionary thoughtfulness to which it aspires, Warning Sign is debatable. Is the Government, despite denials, secretly working on weapons for biological warfare? If so, is there a clear and present danger that the bugs might get loose and start a devastating plague? But on a simpler level, this screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, directed by the former, works very well as a hard-charging chiller. The nasty microbe in the lab turns people into murderous psychopaths when it infects them. And they, in turn, convert the facility into a kind of high-tech haunted house. Kathleen Quinlan...
...into it with all these experts sitting around at the table, and they're all telling you, "Well, why doesn't he say this? Why doesn't he say that?" And then they all take off, and you sit there in your hotel room, writing the screenplay. That's no fun. This has got to be fun, or else it's not worth doing...
...What are the rules? The ranking goes like this: first place, Palme d'Or; second place, Grand Jury Prize; third place, Jury Prize. The Jury may also bestow awards for Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress. A separate commission votes a prize for Superior Technique. Yet another group chooses the Camera d'Or for best first feature - one of the few awards with monetary value: about...
Many feel that along the way, while they were getting their promotion or having their kids or managing their households, they set aside something important that they want to retrieve - their hiking boots, their screenplay, a law degree. "Everybody I know has a version of this," says Susan Reimer-Torn, now a life coach in New York City. "Phase I, you kind of put all the pieces together in your mid- or late 20s, and it almost always involves some kind of trade-off. You figure out what you absolutely must have and end up giving up something else...
Adams spent many years of his life unsuccessfully attempting to adapt his chief d’oeuvre into a screenplay for probably just this reason. How do you convert a work that relies so heavily on cleverly turned phrases and that perfect tone of British sarcasm into a movie without making it either a boringly photographed set of witty talking heads or an unfunny visual representation of all of Adams’ verbose descriptions...