Word: scripting
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...Mexico, collided in a movie dream gone sour. Published to little note, it slowly found important devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
Which is to say, Vendetta is up there with the Wachowski brothers' first Matrix film, which anybody could see had more on its agenda than aerobatic martial arts. The brothers, who wrote the Vendetta script that James McTeigue spiffily directed, are back in top form--not larding political meaning on an action plot but finding a seamless blending of the two. Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should...
...Paul Haggis, who conceived, co-wrote and directed Crash--and who wrote the script for last year's Oscar winner, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby--dismisses the anti-Canada theory. "This time of year," he says, "everyone tries hard to come up with angles, to make life interesting for us. The truth is that I am thrilled to be nominated in such terrific company. All five films are passion pieces. The filmmakers took big risks, and they all deserve to be rewarded...
...entire HPT crew—the actors, the band, and those who worked behind the scenes—live up to the amazing script and musical score. While it seems that both today’s songs and singers are becoming increasingly generic—even on Broadway—HPT commendably delivers refreshing performances of 14 witty new songs, including “Women and Chillin’ First” in which Rodriguez attempts to seduce all women in sight with a suave nonchalance that is part Fred Astaire and part Elvis. In “There?...
...eight or nine shows. They are hesitant to name particular parts they are gunning for, although it is clear that the Mainstage productions—"Knock" and "The Playboy of the Western World"—have caught their attention. Martin even requested a copy of the "Playboy" script in advance to familiarize himself with the plot, character motivations, and difficult Irish language that trips people up throughout auditions...