Word: scripting
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...rest of The Shins oeuvre. The Shins’ old albums gave us quirky, inventive music that became corrupted by association. “Wincing the Night Away” is corrupted from the get-go, and it seems to have been written with a coming-of-age movie script in mind. Catchy, yet safe, the album’s songs won’t change your life. They’ll just remind you how much you loved The Shins before Portman said you should...
...style mocks her supposedly honored subjects with such prize sentiments as “Fuller was unafraid, unafraid of her own brilliance and not afraid to be bitchy.” Even the facts of “Bloomsbury” feel like contrived elements in a poorly written script. Cheever’s framework for the book breaks the interaction between her subjects into four sections of 12 (very short) chapters each. Every few chapters follows a different central characters through the same cluster of years and experiences, which results in a mercilessly irritating repetition of events. Cheever claims...
Owen Wilson told me you're writing a script together. So, which one of you is the whip cracker...
...British writing has been a tradition for decades," says Vaines. "British screenwriters have a facility with words, a theatricality, but they also understand the way film works as a medium." In the Hollywood power scale, most screenwriters rank just below the guy who buys the bagels, and a finished script is never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their say. But the Oscar-nominated British writers all have long histories with the people they work with, stemming from careers that started in television and the theater. "In British film, there's a very...
...Scotland through the U.S. studio system, it would be a very different film, if it had ever been made at all," he says. "Because it would have had to cost a certain amount of money, which would have meant it would have had to cast certain stars and a script that didn't offend too many people and wasn't too violent ? The whole thing would have gone in circles...