Word: scripting
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...Valkyrie, about a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler. The film can now include several scenes shot at the so-called "Bendler Block," a building complex in central Berlin where the officer was executed. Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters that a consideration of the film's script led to the decision. The film shows that "barbarism didn't triumph but led to the founding of a democratic Germany," he said...
Quality in domestic cinema is gradually reasserting itself. "There was a time when scriptwriting in Russia went away because there were no features," says Heth. Monumental has produced two movies and has four more in preproduction. Drawing on Sony's resources in script development and production has helped raise the level of storytelling and overall professionalism. "Russian talent is every bit as good as anywhere else," says Heth. "They just don't have the experience...
PENN: Well, I'd written the script originally structured for songs. I love that kind of thing in movies. I was born in 1960, so you can do the math and figure out that I was just coming into my own with Harold and Maude, and earlier than that, Simon and Garfunkel and The Graduate, and Coming Home. It just added something, letting your songwriter be a co-author of the script in many ways...
Beatles songs are the sound track to a '60s love story splashed on a canvas of social upheaval: race riots, student unrest and draft resistance. What did the four fab Englishmen have to do with all these American crises? We have no idea, and neither does the script. But director Julie Taymor is a picture magician, weaving the fine old songs into a psychedelic tapestry of animation and choreography...
...with a fierce energy that was finally exhausted after 11 days shooting the three scenes. But whether or not they Did It doesn't matter as much as what they reveal of their characters while they're doing it. The first encounter is described in the script as "more or less a rape" - his will to dominate grinding down her stubbornness to survive long enough to get her revenge. In a later tryst, she moans in real or mock pleasure, while he goes silently about his work. Then he curls her body into his and finally makes an enigmatic...