Sentences with phrase «screenplay used»

First, the full 107 - page final screenplay used.

The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for an imaginative spellbinding story of family, obsession, love and loss.

Aware of this conundrum, the screenplay uses the scenario for two key decisions on the part of its leads: Kirk decides to break the central rule of Starfleet to save a member of his crew, and while surrounded by lava and waiting for the timer on the device to hit zero (The film uses a ticking clock a few times and to surprisingly successful effect), Spock kneels, outstretches his arms, and calmly accepts his fate.

Luhrmann and Craig Pearce's screenplay uses a lot of Fitzgerald's text during and in between these displays of prominent emotions and blissful debauchery.

Not exact matches

Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

The beneficiary of it is director Chris Miller who makes use of Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman and John Zack's tight screenplay to draw a slightly agonizing moral at the end.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

The smart but vague screenplay is a generic manifesto for the U.N.'s mission of using talk instead of violence to resolve problems facing the international community.

While not a particularly novel narrative concept, Pellington uses the screenplay from NYC indie wunderkind Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up, Philip) to help collect quite the impressive ensemble of actors - including Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener - to play out various vignettes that revolve around intense emotional trauma.

But the origins of Sorkin's rapid - fire screenplay can be found in Simon, whose characters have an equally large amount to say and are using language as a means of achieving political dominance, using every sentence to compete for space.

This is a much different project, of course, both in terms of setting and story, and the screenplay could use more narrative focus in its first half.

With an exquisite direction, impeccable performances and an absolutely wonderful screenplay, this profoundly sensitive and unconventional love story uses a lot of humor to depict in a most irresistible way the discovery of love by two lonely, introspective people.

They transcribed the screenplays and reenacted their favorite scenes verbatim as camera-less plays, using homemade props rigged together with cereal boxes and yoga mats and packing tape.

Eva Dahlbeck also wrote several screenplays, novels and books of poetry, often using the pseudonym Lis Edvardson.

Quentin Tarantino's darkly funny western about a freed slave turned bounty hunter won the Best Original Screenplay award, despite the controversy surrounding its use of racially provocative language.

The film works like a morality play for our times, using the journalistic approach Vanderbilt used for his Zodiac screenplay to great effect.

When dealing with a blockbuster that comes complete with an uninspiring, unoriginal screenplay, and a collection of poor acting performances, when those two things are not going your way, at the very least you need to rely on the visual experience and the use of CGI.

As far as these types of films go, Moore's screenplay is incredibly unexceptional, pouring on the heavy - handedness unabashedly (including his prized line «sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine, used three times), such as showing the juxtaposition of heterosexual flirtation between Matthew Goode and Tuppence Middleton.

However this time, the fur flies when Hans and Billy kidnap the beloved pooch of a gangster (Woody Harrelson), and Marty uses the ensuing events as fodder for his screenplay.

Only John Hodge's screenplay doesn't use the narration to move the plot — it does occasionally help keep track of the summary storytelling — mostly that narration is Trainspotting «s version of exposition.

Believe it or not, Rampage has a screenplay, credited to four dudes who should have used pseudonyms.

Directed with creative style by Anders Walter (with a screenplay by Joe Kelly, adapting his own comic book), I Kill Giants is a good - looking adventure fable that makes great use of the Northeastern coastal locations.

Luckily, Howard was able to use his stage adaptation, with 14 different scenes, as the basis for the film's screenplay.

In other words, «I Origins» is about a scientist pursuing the possibility of reincarnation, though Cahill's screenplay smartly avoids using that term.

In the testosterone - drenched film The Drop, director Michaël Roskam uses Dennis Lehane's screenplay (his first), a fine supporting role from James Gandolfini (his last),...

Directed by Mel Gibson (Braveheart)-- who funded the film himself and co-wrote the screenplay — The Passion of the Christ uses flashbacks to substantiate a handful of pertinent moments in Jesus» life and teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, as well as his relationships with his mother and his disciples.

Fortunately, Hess has a true story and a screenplay touched by many but not him to use here.

The screenplay by Brin Hill and director Daniel Barnz lays the blame almost solely at the feet at the local teachers union, which, in this scenario, protects a teacher who sits in her classroom and uses her cell phone throughout class and ensures that no teacher will make the effort help Jamie's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind), who has dyslexia, because school ends at 3 p.m. and so does the teacher's workday.

Northern Playlist contributor Nikola Grozdanovic saw both parts, and found it «a remarkably well made relationship film,» using a «Rashomon «- like conceit cunningly across a «multi-layered, organically paced, delicate and quite often hilarious screenplay,» with a «perfect ensemble cast» led by Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, with Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, William Hurt and Jess Weixler among those in support.

Awkward situations arise and are played for laughs, such as the dilemma of needing to use the bathroom when standing at attention (The screenplay, thankfully, is below such euphemisms) or the question of tongue usage («Are you trying to dig your way to China?»)

Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow — Zero Dark Thirty Best Debut Director: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva — Amour Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis — Lincoln Best Ensemble Cast: Argo Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones — Lincoln Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway — Les Miserables Best Cinematography: Life of Pi — Claudio Miranda Best Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty — Mark Boal Best Use of Music: Django Unchained — Mary Ramos Breakthrough Performance: Quvenzhane Wallis — Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Animated Feature: Chico and Rita Best Documentary: The Central Park Five Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Film screenwriter Bill Dubuque used his knowledge that he amassed while writing the screenplays for films such as The Accountant and A Family Man to co-create Ozark, a TV series starring Jason Bateman about a financial planner who launders money for a Mexican cartel in the Missouri Ozarks.

Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee Hernandez, John Benjamin Hickey, Robert Wisdom, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jacklyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Hunter Parrish Director: Richard LaGravenese Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese (based on the book, «Freedom Writers: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them», by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers) Review published May 15, 2007

The hackers leaked screenplays owned by Sony Pictures which led to the studio cancelling the theatrical release and using digital platforms like Google's YouTube instead.

When not writing about film, Solzman can be found using her free time to work on writing feature film screenplays or discussing film and such on social media.

The screenplay does an excellent job of keeping us as unbalanced as these women, using scattered flashbacks, and shifting points of view as we try to fit the pieces of this evolving puzzle together.

Mann was honored to see her work used as the central piece of a film like this, and besides the critics» praise, her work gained recognition in the form of an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song («Save Me»), one of three Academy nominations the film received (Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actor for Cruise).

First time screenwriter Paul Webb's original screenplay for Selma doesn't use the text book bullet points one might assume a film about Dr. King might encompass.

We started with the clever use of shoes outside a door to create an unsettling mood before moving on to the terrors of parenthood (as seen here and in his previous screenplay, HANNA), the counterintuitive use of color, and the disturbing behavior of which people are capable of when pushed to extremes (as seen here and in his mini-series, The Night Manager).

Dench could get a nomination for Best Actress for her compelling performance, as well as the aforementioned screenplay, but of course the movie has hit a snag with the MPAA, getting an R - rating for two non-sexual uses of the «F» word.

Craig Johnson's amusing screenplay is laden down at times by clumsy symbolism, much of it involving goldfish, and the theme of suicide is rather glibly used.

Best Picture: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids Best Screenplay: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Alexander Payne, The Descendants Best Ensemble Cast: Bridesmaids Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation Best Documentary: Cave of Forgotten Dreams Best Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin Breakthrough Performer: Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanus Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezski, The Tree of Life Best Use of Music: Ludovic Bource, The Artist Best Debut Director: Joe Cornish, Attack the Block

Stone is using the novel as well as Luke Harding's The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man as sources for the screenplay.

Adapting Jane Austen is an unexpected move for Stillman, whose first four films used original screenplays written only by him.

The screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt and Abrams effectively uses nostalgia and family ties to reset the hero myth that became synonymous with the original films.

And although Lanthimos and regular co-writer Efthymis Filippou took the Best Screenplay award in Cannes, it's the film's sheer all - of - a-piece execution — from pacing and composition, to brilliant use of contemporary composers including (Kubrick fave) Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and expertly modulated performances — which holds you in its steely grip and just never lets go.

Her talent is put to far better use in Frances, whose screenplay is credited to both Baumbach and her (her fifth and most significant writing credit to date).

The actress was discussing the newlyweds that she and Billy Howle play in Dominic Cooke's brilliantly observed film of Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach, using a screenplay by the author.

When he finished a movie titled Creature from the Haunted Sea early, he decided that since he has a cast, crew and locations on hand why not ask a screenwriter to quickly throw together a screenplay for him film using that same cast, crew and locations!

It's probably a good thing that director Karyn Kusama abstained from using Hall & Oates» «Maneater» in the film, because Cody's screenplay is sure to invoke plenty of groans from the audience.