Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...permission to form a new federal government. But whether he will survive as party leader at UMNO?s convention later this year is still up in the air. He could even be ousted as Prime Minister by the National Front. Unlike many aspects of Malaysian democracy, that script is still unwritten...
...Director David Gordon Green, whose script came from Stewart O'Nan's novel, has navigated these slippery shoals before. Green's George Washington, made in 2000, when he was just 25, plunged deep into the inarticulate depths of preteen love; and his All the Right Girls brought the same meticulous, poetic attention on college-age kids. Snow Angels, though seemingly broader and more conventional, has the Green love of repeated behavioral detail. We see a woman run her fingers through her hair and, moments later, her son does the same; an estranged couple faces each other, edgily she with...
...engaged, many chapters experiment with forms other beyond plain prose. For example, Alex Gregory, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, contributes two brilliant cartoons about situations in which technology has harmed relationships. David Wain, co-writer of “Wet Hot American Summer,” offers a script about a guy trying to date a woman who keeps blowing him off. Tom McCarthy, an actor and writer who has appeared in movies like “Meet The Parents,” delivers one of the most touching chapters. It consists of his belated response to letters sent...
...serves as the requisite gorgeous female lead and plays Terry’s foil and love interest. Take these characters, add a bank where the managers decide to shut the alarms off for a week, top it off with a healthy dose of gratuitous nudity, and you have the script of “The Bank Job.” The movie sets the bar pretty high for itself in the opening twenty seconds. In a film as shamelessly catered to masculine audiences as “The Bank Job,” one thing is assured: partial female nudity...
...foul play. The drama is streamlined, and the shifting allegiance of Sister James is mirrored by the audience’s confusion over which account to believe. After the intensity of the dialogue, Sister Aloysius’ exaggerated sense of decorum infuses a bit of comic relief into the script. Wright’s production succeeds as a worthy representation of a grave parable...