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...sent the screenplay, which I read first, and then I read the novel. It's interesting, for instance on The Ice Storm [1997], I started reading the novel and it was so different, I could tell that Ang Lee's concept of our story was going to be somewhat austere, and also somewhat a comedy of manners. The book was just so detailed, I actually didn't wind up reading it. But with A Map of the World I just couldn't put it down, it was just so gripping...
...plodding screenplay often moves at a maddeningly slow pace, one that even Leo's formidable aesthetic talents can't make bearable. Richard is also not a likable protagonist. His self-centered, immature behavior makes it difficult to sympathize with him, no matter what disaster strikes. Yet the character of Richard is the antithesis of that of Jack Dawson, DiCaprio's role in Titanic, which is testimony to DiCaprio's versatility as an actor, debunking his reputation as just another pretty face. Rumors have circulated that DiCaprio impregnated his leading lady during filming. Despite these rumors, the chemistry between Francoise...
...This approach, of using the interview itself in the way that most directors use a screenplay, may be the key to what sets Morris' films apart from others, fiction and non-fiction. He effectively combines the elements of reality of documentary film with the studio shots, props, and visual artistry of pre-written productions...
Because of the visual style he chooses, Hicks is able to retain the novel's dense, multi-tiered flashback structure. Though the screenplay is, for the most part, religiously faithful to the novel, Hicks does take a few very slight liberties with the ending. More cynical viewers may find his alterations maudlin; I found them highly effective--and appropriate, given the film's overall tone...
After months of tracking rumors and talking to Kaufman's family and friends, Alexander and Karaszewski had no clue who the real Andy was or how to structure a screenplay about him. It was only after one of Kaufman's girlfriends told them "there is no real Andy" that they found the key to their movie--the comic with multiple personalities was actually an invisible man. With that notion as their guide, they wrote Man on the Moon, a movie nearly as ambiguous as Kaufman himself...