Word: scripting
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DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, fears and sorrows, particularly laments in marriage...
...Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs threw like a girl--nothing changed. "After Any Given Sunday--I'm not kidding--I got a script called The Next Hot Negro. The. Next. Hot. Negro...
Part of the source of this unaffected sentiment is the way Roberts’ closeness to the narrative seeps into the film. The script, which Roberts spent seven years writing, is based heavily on his own tangled relationship with an absentee father, giving it a palpable authenticity that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell’s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they are “pro-active and action-oriented.” While all of the characters in Huckabees seem primed to arc from ironic distance...
...don’t know if we’ve ever talked about considering a target as much as trying to tell the story from the lead character’s point of view,” says Stone, who co-wrote the script. Though many filmmakers earnestly espouse a similar philosophy, rarely do they make their lead characters puppets...