Word: scripting
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What Hollywood couldn't ignore it would try to co-opt. The year was 1967, the films Bonnie and Clyde (whose script was originally offered to Godard) and The Graduate (with its jazzy ransacking of the European film lexicon), and soon American directors had the auteur status that had been the exclusive province of foreigners. Then U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish...
Black was one of Hollywood’s darlings when his script for “Lethal Weapon” reestablished the buddy-cop genre. With “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” he became Hollywood’s highest paid screenwriter and went home to enjoy the smell of millions of dollar bills. And that, apparently, made him bitter. Who knew that getting paid lots of money could get you so angry...
However, most of the jokes come from the interaction between wimpy Harry and hard-boiled Perry. The script can’t help but fall back on old standards and gay-baiting: Perry’s phone lights up with an obnoxious “I Will Survive” ringtone, and he gets himself out of one jam by seducing an armed thug...
...sensitive, almost childlike intensity. After the war, he escaped to America, and went to film school, where he began acting and writing screenplays about his experiences in El Salvador. While acting in an AT&T commercial, he handed the director, Luis Mandoki, the script that would become “Innocent Voices.”The 12-year-old Torres, nicknamed “Chava” in the film, is played by Carlos Padilla in a remarkable acting debut. He’s a parallel of the title character in Francois Truffaut?...
...message of Clooney’s excellent script is in fact anything but gentle: journalists have a responsibility to stand up against governmental abuses, even if that seems to compromise their objectivity. But Strathairn deserves credit for saving the film from tendentiousness, delivering Murrow’s tirades with a calm, persuasive authority that’s unvaried but never wooden...