Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draw of The Truman Show. Netting the most of any movie this summer ($60 million), this movie had an irresistible premise: a man whose entire life has been a drama broadcast into living rooms suddenly realizes that even his most natural moments occur according to a rehearsed script. Though we laughed when his wife looked directly into the camera to advertise a cooking product and when the show's director prompted, "Cue the sun!", the movie's emotional center was Truman's exit. The movie broke out of being simply another meditation on the control of the media...
...seems churlish to take anything away from a film with such a unanimously powerful opening and an attention to history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script moves from the opening battle sequence to the last is less than wholly compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome. But Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least ten years. Disputation seems insolent in the case of this film. --Nicholas K. Davis...
...eyes twinkle not when he counts votes but when he quotes Edmund Burke or winds through the story of George Washington quelling a mutiny at Newburgh, N.Y. He was so taken with the portrayal of John Quincy Adams in the movie Amistad that he sent away for the script; he memorized passages about "the very nature of man" and uses them in speeches denouncing partial-birth abortion. "Henry is haunted by the ghosts of this place," says Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee. "He feels as if all those who have come before him are looking...
...some black folks needed another reason to conclude that when it comes to race, some white folks still just don't get it. After a tape of the Pfeiffer pilot got out, it set off yet another overheated racial contretemps in Los Angeles. Like actors following the script of a bad sitcom about political correctness, a coalition of black organizations and politicians pulled out the rhetorical artillery to try to force UPN to cancel Pfeiffer (the P, as what passes for witty dialogue on the show constantly reminds us, isn't silent) before it ever airs. "The show trivializes...
...film version by John Travolta. Looks as if they had good reason. The movie, which was to be directed by Fred Schepisi and to costar Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, has hit stormy water. After two years of preproduction, Columbia and Schepisi were unable to agree on a script. No one's talking, but Schepisi was apparently in favor of the faithful-to-the-book version turned in by Laura Jones, who has adapted several books for film, including "Portrait of a Lady" and "A Thousand Acres." Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects -- the main character...