Word: scripting
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...soldier and belief is a battlefield, it appears that Pearl's last words were a forced affirmation of faith and identity. "I am a Jew," he said to the captors offscreen. "My father is a Jew." He recited some criticisms of U.S. policies, as though from a script that echoed his kidnappers' demands. Then the tape cuts out and starts again as a knife stabs his throat. Then he is on the floor, wounded. And then, another cut, another image, as his severed head is waved in front of the camera...
...direct after wrapping 1995's Something to Talk About, which starred Julia Roberts. But the densely layered storytelling in E. Annie Proulx's celebrated book about Quoyle, a widower who moves to his ancestral hometown in Canada, proved difficult to translate to screen. Unhappy with the script, Hallström quit. The project went through four writers, two other directors and two leading men (John Travolta and Billy Bob Thornton) before a more experienced Hallström agreed to try again...
Such projects usually become pariahs. No one wants to work on them because everyone doubts they'll ever make it to the cinema. But Hallström pushed, getting Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) to pen a new script and recruiting an A-list cast. Kevin Spacey, who plays Quoyle, said Hallström was "the right kind of director to capture what was very difficult to put on film." Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, who signed on as Quoyle's love interests, both praised the freedom Hallström gives actors. "I don't impose performances," he says...
Comden, who wrote the fabulous script with her partner Green, says of the original project, "All we knew was there?d be some scene where someone?d be singin?, and it would be rainin?." They concocted a period piece, set way back at the coming of talking pictures, 24 years earlier. (That would be like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens...
...Milutinovic stayed home. But it's also true that 240 million Chinese television viewers, and probably a few soccer-crazy apparatchiks, never foresaw such a late-game loss of face. China was 1-0 up for just five minutes until Hong Kong leveled , only to then depart totally from script by slaying the mighty dragon 4-3 on penalties. How Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa explains this one might determine if the territory continues to get fresh water and receive flu-ridden poultry or whether crossing into the mainland gets harder in the run-up to the "glorious...