Word: scripting
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...that failure, widely expected, does not daunt the intrepid young actor. According to Eisenberg, Cursed was “unique,” as the script developed “real characters. A lot of horror focuses on the horror. So you lose that development,” he told The Crimson a day before the film’s release...
Many of the flaws can be attributed to the script, but not all. Director F. Gary Grey clearly developed The Rock’s characterization of Be Cool’s only homosexual as so flamboyant, he makes Elton John look like Ronald Reagan. Vince Vaughn outdoes Jamie Kennedy’s Malibu’s Most Wanted caricature as a confused Jewish hip-hopper who thinks he’s black. Thurman is a strong female executive, but still melts immediately in a strong masculine presence; her characters have had more integrity when overdosing on cocaine. This collective clamoring...
...booths and bare lightbulbs awaken your nostalgia. By day, you can catch “All My Children” and your other favorite soaps on the three televisions along with locals decked out in goth gear. A mural dedicated to poet Charles Bukowski—who wrote the script for the 1987 flick Barfly—features a red typewriter with a single line: “I am drinking beer.” You should...
Luke was the perfect dynamic character, whose beautiful transition from water-polo-playing bully to “friend to the world” was the result of heartbreaking insecurities rather than poor script writing. By deflowering Marissa, banging Julie even after she blocked him on AIM, and playing golf while wasted, he redefined “baller status” for high-schoolers everywhere. If he would swim to The OC from Portland wearing Speedos and a swim cap or emerge from the pool at one of Cal’s parties (again, in a Speedo and swim...
...when a casting search of schools around Manchester turned him up, and he walked in to audition, Boyle looked at the boy's seraphic face and said, "I bet that's him." Etel didn't give as good a reading of the lines in Frank Cottrell Boyce's script as some of the other boys, but that didn't trouble the director. "I didn't really want an actor," Boyle says. "I was looking for an innocence, a simplicity and a beauty that make you feel like you're not watching a manipulated piece of commercial art, which is what...