Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script for A Man For All Seasons, the playwright reminds us that the purpose of the play is to "celebrate the man." Robert Bolt's work does so masterfully. Powerfully written and expressive, Bolt's presentation of Sir Thomas More's life before death stands on its own as a strikingly haunting and beautiful play. Without a doubt, it is something we should all experience. How could we not? We will leave the play feeling more insecure, yet confident in what it should mean to be humbly human. And now we can--this week, director Joseph Gfaller...
This production includes some new and inventive scenes not found in the script--pantomimes set to Carmina Burana that provide some melodrama and historical background, not to mention a great way to draw us in to this historical scandal. Drama permeates the whole show, and the intimidating music and effective lighting help the actors excel in this production...
...danger of any innovation is that it quickly becomes calcified. But that may not happen with Dogme. The Danes who made the first four films under it are planning a millennial blast. Each will film part of a script written by the four, and each director's scenes will be shown live on a different TV channel on Dec. 31, with viewers doing their own editing by flicking the remote. And as U.S. auteurs, locked in stasis, consider the next century, the Danish challenge might look appealing. Who better than Spielberg to teach an old Dogme new tricks...
...here, unless you care to study how the fingernails of time have raked across Terence Stamp's still handsome face, or see Peter Fonda playing the cool drug lord his Easy Rider character might have become. As he did in Out of Sight, Soderbergh slices, dices and Cuisinarts the script into flashbacks, scene shifts, stop motion and other distracting foolery. Is he working out a new form of visual storytelling, or has the ever-so-promising director of sex, lies, and videotape lost his chops and his marbles...
According to Fonda, the screenwriter Lem Dobbs was developing story and script with Soderbergh for over three years. When first approached, Fonda was informed that the role of Valentine was being developed with him in mind. When he finally read the script, it was an offer he couldn't refuse...