Word: scripting
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...late '90s, Coppola says, "I just wanted to find a place for myself. I didn't want to be a director who was hired: 'Here's a script, we've got Robin Williams.'" After he lost a lengthy rights battle with Warner Bros. over a Pinocchio project, Coppola says he realized, "I don't have that much time. The time has come to do the dream project, the ultimate one that I write myself that's about something really ambitious, that contributes new ideas to the language of cinema." While the Godfather movies are fan favorites, he prefers the films...
...Luckily, the actors’ superb body language surmounted the script to skillfully convey each patient’s individual insanity. For instance, the painfully long smiles of depressed nurse Norma (Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10) and her fluid movements in the opening monologue presaged the abrupt jumps from one emotion to another that would occur throughout the play. Unfortunately, Bendorf sometimes delivered her lines with a nagging rhythm that reduced their effectiveness...
...audience were drenched in a thick red light, foreshadowing the bloodbath of the final scenes. The use of magnified shadows to prefigure actors’ entrances onto the stage was also a nice touch.The major strength of the Agassiz production came from its close adherence to its original script, which is sheer entertainment on its own. However, many scenes in the first act of “Bodas de Sangre” were loaded with so much incoherent action that it made the play seem more like satire than a tragedy. But the play did pull through...
...Urinetown,” running through November 10, is a satire that juxtaposes politics and bathroom humor. In drama, this divisive subject matter must be carefully presented in order to provoke laughter instead of offense. The script, written by Chicago artists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis, and its production by the Adams House Drama Society manage this feat with an absurdist mix of bald honesty and self-deprecating asides...
...Urinetown” was worth the time, faithful to the tone of its script while allowing dramatic leeway for talented leads. These leads helped compensate for points when ensemble performances were lacking. The story was effectively conveyed—and satirical enough to suggest an underlying message that was, shockingly, about more than just bodily functions—but light enough that the point never felt belabored, and comedy reigned...