The accomplished writer is Simon Beaufoy, who most recently adapted «127 Hours» and «Slumdog Millionaire» into scripts, and even he chose to leave that tiny
detail out of the script.
Not exact matches
As the corruption trial
of his former close aide and confidant Joe Percoco played
out in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stuck to a largely similar
script when asked about the
details of the testimony.
I'll wager that whatever realism may have been present in Matthews's book has been mostly stripped
out by Justin Haythe's
script, which focuses less on the gritty
details of espionage and more on the various crimes visited upon the body and soul
of Dominika Egorova (Lawrence), the film's protagonist.
The kind
of run -
of - the - mill biopic that seems like a telefim, with a conventional
script that lays every
detail out in the open (in case you have any cognitive problem) and a series
of irrelevant flashbacks that don't really help us understand the character as well as they should.
This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989 film was a pretty solid adaptation (King wrote the
script himself), there are a lot
of details that were left
out of the film that could work perfectly in a new take on the material.
Realized with an eye to
detail both in the
script and on the set, carried
out by a cast who understand the nuances found between the showier moments
of their characters and the story, and brilliantly conceived and captured by Haynes, long - form television — and hell, most movies — doesn't get much better than this.
It's a common but misguided trap in a struggling
script where the narration often seems to describe the juicy
details that should be what's actually acted
out as opposed to some
of the other filler scenes that feel unnecessary.
Michael Green's
script is smart enough to play the whole thing straight, only calling
out the outdated
details from the period novel and leaving the rest
of the crime story intact.
The first third is dedicated to a built - in, manic «making -
of» featurette that essays, in deadly, deadening
detail, how Verhoeven posted four pages
of a
script online, then invited anybody with a laptop and a Starbucks to submit the next five pages, and the next, and so on and so forth, thus pushing Verhoeven
out of his comfort zone and inspiring him to new heights as a filmmaker.
Hare's
script never skimps on ideas and
details, yet finds a way to make a thrilling courtroom drama
out of an argument about history.
Alvarez co-wrote the
script with Rodo Sayagues, laying
out the architecture
of the house in a manner that feels organically lived in, while they establish the characters with little
detail.
Because heist movies are more fun when viewers know little about the procedural infiltration
of footwork soldiers (i.e. the Bang brothers), the
script focuses on other
details to bring
out the excellent idiosyncrasy
of early Quentin Tarantino heist films.
The problem I struggled with so much in a traditional model, as described above, is that no matter how good and
detailed my storyboard was, no matter how thorough my facilitator guide
scripted out the course, it was not until the testing - the ability to get in there and «see it action» - that I got the type
of feedback I really needed.