Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Christmas, he has another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...wasn’t Weinstein’s money or Winfrey’s clout that pushed Washington to direct and co-star in the film. Instead, Washington determined for himself that “Debaters” was something special. “When I read the script, I just liked the script. I thought it was an interesting story—the little train that could. I was attracted to the fact that it was about the spoken word. Dominant aspects of our culture now are hip hop, rap, and poetry.” He goes...
...Stevens, who is taking intermediate German and introductory Arabic, said that languages like Arabic that do not use the Latin alphabet pose an issue for the software she uses to do her reading. And because no one at Harvard could translate the Arabic script into Braille, ATL had to hire an outside company to translate the book...
...plots that provide more blood than brains (“Saw IV,” anyone?), films like “The Orphanage” show how much the American horror-film industry has to learn from writers like Sergio Sanchez, who crafted the film’s excellent script. Is this eerily heart-wrenching production a masterpiece alongside the ranks of del Toro’s critically acclaimed brainchild? Not quite, but “The Orphanage” comes surprisingly close. Expect much from this director in the future. Bayona, we’re watching...
...what's left to talk about? Peter Wehner, who worked for Bush in the White House on strategic initiatives for more than six years, wonders if the candidates' repeated calls for an era of Reagan-like optimism aren't anachronistic. "Some have lifted a script from the past," he says, "without realizing the setting on the stage has changed." The intellectual fatigue guarantees that the Republicans will fall back on the one issue that unites them: the Democrats. Giuliani has led the charge here, repeatedly naming Hillary Clinton in debates as the real threat facing the nation. But Sanford warns...