Word: scripting
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...mean, disturb the character. The movie takes place over five days, and there are five major scenes between these two characters, and each one is kind of a one-act play. They have to disturb each other in an attractive way. We didn't have a finished script until deep into the shooting, but I thought, O.K., I know Nic a little bit, I can be embarrassed by asking her to do a picture I don't have a script for. But I didn't know Sean that well. Am I going to fly up there like an a__hole...
PENN: There wasn't a finished script, but you had a lot of good things. There was her, and, you know, you've already made 152 great movies. What is that, about a movie a year...
...which eschews many traditional rules of Hollywood narrative construction. “I just threw out all my ideas about story structure,” he says. “We just sort of muddled our way through, and got done, and said, ‘Is this a script? Is this satisfying?’ We had no idea...
Avoiding the norm would be risky, he knew, and since most Harvard students got to be where they are by avoiding danger and sticking to the script, it would take a serious shift in culture for things to change...
Everyone, everything else in Terrel Seltzer's script is fully assimilated. And so Mom's Old World neighbors play mahjongg with her, then go home to "see what Alexis is up to" on Dynasty. When Geraldine and her kindly, crumpled uncle (Victor Wong) botch a home-cooked Chinese meal, they wind up dining at McDonald's. On the sound track, a zheng and a keening saxophone play a duet of The Star-Spangled Banner. One expects this felicitous cross-fertilization from Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing), who was born in Hong Kong and named after John Wayne...