Sentences with phrase «witty screenplay»

The Lobster definitely benefits from its witty screenplay, co-written by Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, with its absurd and comical setting, the dry humored and sharp dialogues and its eccentric characters but also from the intentionally monotonous, mechanic performances by its actors.

For being young writers, you can hear a specific voice and style in the witty screenplay.

About 20 years ago, a friend of mine wrote an extremely witty screenplay for a revisionist - Western comedy based on the Lone Ranger.

Thank Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's witty screenplay to get the most out of these characters.

But then, as the often - witty screenplay reveals soon enough, James is no ordinary Roman Catholic priest.

Not exact matches

«I didn't ax - murder your young couple» is among the many witty one - liners in John Sayles» razor - sharp screenplay.

A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored an original screenplay nod.

In addition to the screenplay by returning director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller, which retains the Muppets» trademark humor, charm and heart, Bret McKenzie provides half a dozen original songs that are incredibly witty and catchy, and among the film's many highlights.

Illness comedies aren't really a thing but maybe they should be, based on the evidence of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's witty and wise screenplay, drawn from a scary episode from their own premarital past.

All of the trademarks of his work are evident in this very first screenplay — witty banter laced with profanity, reversals, reveals, a loopy plot that doesn't make much sense if you hold it up to any kind of scrutiny but it's so fun you never will, a Christmas - time setting — less tightly controlled and mannered in his later scripts, but still there.

Still matching each other category by category, CMBYN took adapted screenplay with James Ivory's warm and delicate rendering of the beloved book, while Thread «s P.T. Anderson parlayed his witty dialogue to an original screenplay prize.

«Fast paced and full of witty banter, fights, and lots of sci - fi technology — jet packs and the aforementioned robot spiders, for example — this is a terrifically fun screenplay that is easy to envision as a big, successful summer popcorn flick,» Hughes says.

It's an accomplished screenplay, peppered with period detail and witty dialogue («I don't want to lose my virginity to a piece of fruit!»).

Bo Goldman's screenplay is witty but far from perfect, its only flaw being an uninspired subplot involving a pending disciplinary action against Charlie.

Unfortunately, the dialogue, unlike Shrek 1's which was formerly marked by witty repartee and clever allusions to classic cartons and nursery rhymes, has been replaced by unimaginative exchanges lifted out of the hack screenplay handbook.

But even if the screenplay — credited to Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts — is just a touch too familiar, it seems hardly fair to penalize a film so visually inventive, witty and filled with magnificent spectacle, just because it has come around at a saturation point in the superhero cinema industry.

Another few drafts of the screenplay could have benefitted proceedings as the dialogue within the film is not as punchy or as witty as it could be.

The screenplay, meanwhile, is sharp and witty, even if it is the product of a man approaching his 80th birthday.

The screenplay, by a team of four writers, including Inarritu himself, is packed with witty, sharp dialogue, some dark elements, and smart, biting commentary on a variety of topics, including Hollywood vs. Broadway, movies vs. the stage, actors vs. celebrities, performers vs. critics, career vs. family, and «the biggie»: the true meanings of life.

I do take umbrage with certain decisions (longtime readers can probably guess the part when I mentally threw a shoe at the screen), but the off - the - cuff screenplay and witty interplay did its work to win me back.»