Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this slightly flawed--yet worth seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and make it shine. Marc P. Resteghini...
...movie must end, director James Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic through the eyes of Rose (Kate Winslet), who tells about her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). The two run the events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, the film is a pyrrhic...
This one's a sure bet: media darlings Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting. Hollywood simply can't get over the fact that two actors can actually write a successful movie script (and still be so darn cute!). Their screenplay is far from being as good as everyone's making it out to be, but the other nominees don't have that much more compelling a claim--though The Full Monty manages to balance its killingly funny physical gags with a surprisingly poignant, though too easily resolved, storyline...
...script adaptation race, L.A. Confidential has the dual virtue of both deserving to win and being assured of doing so. For original scripts, Good Will Hunting is a lock, but without the year's most deserving competitors--Eve's Bayou, The Apostle and In the Company of Men--it's a win for style over substance. Titanic should sweep the Cinematography, Art Direction and Costume Design awards, even though L.A. Confidential had crisper photography and The Wings of the Dove had more dramatically loaded sartorials. No gripes with the Art Direction win though; you break that much porcelain and flood...
SHOULD WINHunt, who overcame the reductive, implausible and emotionally dishonest script ofAs Good As It Gets to create a full-bodied, graceful, intelligent woman...