Word: scripting
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...young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral ambiguity as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing clichés; here he recycles them...
...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn...
...many years and attending summer programs at New York University’s Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Yale School of Drama, Bohrer felt he had the tools to start writing his own pieces. “Knowing how to analyze and break down a script as an actor really made me feel ready to try my hand at writing,” he says. He began work on the content for “Slipping Away” in a creative playwriting class at Harvard, an experience which he sees as invaluable to his work...
...operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. But then, the Christmas season - the busiest time for consumer loans - is approaching fast. And should callers have worries, staff have been given a reassuring script to deal with them...
...reasons. One I thought the script was really good. Really funny and really complex. Two, I felt like we need a Latin holiday movie. We've seen lots of white holiday movies. We've seen some black holiday movies, but we've never seen a Latin holiday movie, so it's about time...