Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Through the laborious arranging of plot furniture in Justin Zackham's script - Edward has publicly proclaimed that every sick room in his hospitals must be filled with two patients - these disparate souls end up side by side, each one informed he has only a few months to live. It's as if Edward and Carter had been wheeled in to a UCLA screenwriting class. Here, students, is the movie ploy called "meeting cute" in its purest, weirdest form. What if George Bailey and Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life were forced to endure each other's company...
...might as well have fun with it." No question that the filmmakers and stars are on the top of their game. Hoffman reminds us that, along with his weird and salutary ability to burrow into any character, he is a great line-reader - a crucial asset to a script with the welter of exposition that Sorkin's has (along with many big laughs and even more subversive ones). Roberts gets to parade her luster in evening gowns and bikinis; she amps up the cunning warmth, and we note only in passing that in early middle-age she's starting...
...what is she?” asks Malik. Malik translated al-Hakim’s text from Arabic into English himself, and he and the cast constantly refer to the original text.“We refer back to the original many times for enlightenment, and sometimes adjust the script to fit the actors speaking it,” he says.With this production, Malik is trying to present to American audiences an important play from Arabic literature that is practically unknown outside of the Middle East.“I translated this play from Arabic hoping that it would serve...
...aspects, however, fail to rise above average holiday-movie fare. While the film features some breathtaking shots of the world’s natural and man-made wonders, overall the cinematography feels pedestrian. Many of the extreme stunts and locations appear computerized, lending a gimmicky sense the scenes. The script tends to be heavy-handed, relying largely on dialogue to convey emotions, instead of leaving the storytelling to Freeman and Nicholson. Where improvisation would have lent a natural air to the time that Cole and Chambers spend together, Justin Zackham’s writing impedes the viewer?...
...Sarkozy must surely hope Gaddafi does not veer off script again, by ultimately shopping for arms elsewhere, after the negotiations expire next June. France is the world's fourth-biggest arms exporter. But the top three - the United States, Britain, and Russia - account for nearly three-quarters of global arms sales, and they could increase that share in the future, leaving France ever-further behind...