Word: scripting
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...During this global-warming boot camp, Gore stands in front of his cavalry for about 12 hours and explains the slide show presentation he gives in the movie. The volunteers are not required to follow a set script, but Gore offers specific advice on how to engage the audience and use metaphors to explain complex scientific information. A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers, and a professional speech trainer offers public speaking advice...
...close, Rich, to get the truth," a photographer tells the correspondent in Salvador. "You get too close, you die." Sometimes Stone gets and stays too close. Much of Platoon is strong meat, indifferently prepared. His script is over-wrought?fine, the material virtually demands excess and excrescence?but it is also overwritten, with too much narration that spells out what has already been so eloquently shown. As a director, Stone does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire...
...aspiring director, staged a production last summer of Biloxi Blues in Fish Creek, Wis., which Simon came to see. Ellen, 29, a choreographer and aspiring screenwriter, lives in Toronto with her husband and Simon's only grandchild, Andrew, who turns six this week. When she completed her first script last fall, she sent it to her father?and to Mason?for comment...
When I first read the script, I thought it should be done, but I wanted someone else to do it. My mom read it and urged me to do it. She said, if you do it, I'll come take care of you. She came and cooked and did my laundry...
...script, by Lu Wei, who also worked on Zhang's To Live and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, nicely arranges the vectors of comradeship and competition, power and conscience. Zhou Xiaowen's direction is on the stolid side, but his coaxes his lead actors into giving superb performances, full of the intelligent fury the material demands. This is a movie headed for tragedy (the warlord orders Jianli blinded by the fumes of horse urine!), and by the end two of the three are dead. The lieutenant, driven mad with jealousy on hearing of Yueyang's affair with Jianli, murders...