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...This is straight from Paul Abbott's BBC script for the BBC series, which has a beautiful narrative shape, gradually expanding from the two murders to a wider conspiracy, then narrowing to reveal the killer. The movie is seriously compressed, as a 2-hour film must be from a 5-hour 41-minute TV show, but not fatally crippled. It reduces the number of reporters on the story from five to two, as well as ditching the subplot of a tryst Cal has with Anne. In the TV series Cal has two houseguests. Stephen and then Anne; it seems just...
...movie's script is credited to three heavyweights, all veterans of political suspense film: Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote The Kingdom (G-men in a middle East war) and Lions for Lambs (handwringing over Afghanistan); Tony Gilroy, of Michael Clayton and Bourne movie fame; and Billy Ray, who did the magazine-corruption film Shattered Glass and the CIA exposé Breach. When a trio of top names is on a script, you can guess that each worked consecutively on the material, trying to slim it down or punch it up; and that each was employed to fix the "improvements...
...Turns out that Abbott's story hadn't been stretched to fill six hours, it was designed that way, with climaxes or cliffhangers at the end of each episode. The script inhabits a large structure that allows breathing room for the characters and situations; the movie tries to keep up with the story, but huffs and puffs like an out-of-shape runner trying to turn a marathon into a sprint. It's got most of the original's text but not its texture. The TV show's director, David Yates, sometimes erred on the side of camerabatics...
...Rouches followed the script, crushing the first pitch he saw from Gruber well over the fence in left field to give the Crimson a 7-4 lead...
...audience to feel the essence of the story,” says Odelia S. Younge ’11, one of the producers for the show. “It’s such a simple production; it’s really all in the words of the script. The stories speak for themselves. The play has a lot of power in that it is so simple.”Constructed from real interviews, case files, and public records, “The Exonerated” clearly explores the appalling consequences of false accusation. It appeals to a variety...