Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...instantly befriended the cinemarati. One of his first film works, which he dubbed All at Sea, was of Chaplin on a yacht with his young protegee, Paulette Goddard, "as trim as shiny as a trout." The Little Tramp, like Cooke an English emigre, asked him to work on a script about Napoleon. (Later the actor-director told Cooke, "It's a beautiful idea, for somebody else," and that was that...
...with the opening of his current exhibit, “Three Easy Pieces,” at the Carpenter Center.“You could call this talk ‘Three Easy Pieces and One Really Hard Piece,’” he said. The bare script of “Godot” allowed itself to be molded by the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans. Describing the production, Chan recalled, “the bat...the cars, and the drunk guy screaming, ‘I’m waiting...
...camera, especially when it comes to her approach to making a film. “You don’t need to be very tough and strong to make films,” Denis said. “But, in asking myself if my way of starting a script is feminine, sometimes I feel it and I don’t know why. As if something in me was slightly refusing too much fiction. Maybe this is feminine? I don’t know. This is a question I’m asking myself.”Denis is currently...
...Maybe not; the Potter films are superproductions costing in the hundred millions, while the much more intimate Twilight, directed by Catherine Hardwicke from Melissa Rosenberg's script, has a low-medium budget (less than $40 million) and an artless indie vibe. But just as J.K. Rowling cannily fed tween readers' innocent lust for adventure, so Meyer smites their slightly older sisters with the adventure of innocent lust. And when the teen witches and wizards of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series, vacated the prime slot of the weekend before Thanksgiving for a July...
...assiduously courting the alpha fans, the diehards who get the buzz started through their blogs and podcasts. "From the beginning, we were very focused on signaling to the fan base that this film would be everything they wanted," says Summit CEO Rob Friedman. That meant keeping Meyer involved in script and casting decisions as a custodian of her original girl-meets-vampire vision. Early on, for instance, the author put her foot down to preserve certain details that were important to her - that in her stories, for instance, vampires have no fangs and their skin sparkles in the sunlight...