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...speak for Indians like me, there's nothing new in it for us. It's saturated with stereotyped images of India. The expectations that had built up [around the film] were bound to make it a letdown." Vikas Swarup, author of Q and A, on which the screenplay is based, says Slumdog might have "fallen by the wayside if it had been made 20 years ago." He says at least part of the film's success is because "India is the flavor of the season. People want to know about this country of 9% growth and enormous variety. People want...
...Harvard Lampoon: On second thought…we’d like to withdraw our application; people actually like our jokes. However, if you’re willing to hand over the keys to the castle, we can talk.College Boxes: We thought this was an opportunity to write a screenplay for a pornographic film, but it actually was just an inept storage company.Freeze College Magazine: Dear FCM, we’re sorry about the mix-up. That application was supposed to go to Diamond Magazine. We know you’re much more interested in “what?...
...Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager's love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it's both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. The Reader revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater's great connector, examining...
...movie Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, remade with ABBA songs as Mamma Mia! Many a memorable MGM musical - Meet Me in St. Louis, Yolanda and the Thief, Ziegfeld Follies and (uncredited) The Wizard of Oz - sprang from the typewriter of Irving Brecher, 94. After writing the Bye Bye Birdie screenplay, Brecher began a retirement that lasted 45 years. I wish the same...
...wrote scripts based on his own novels and those of other crime writers, incl. Jim Thompson's The Grifters (Oscar nomination) and Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Under Ground. He knew the difference in the two crafts: "If I write a novel, I'm a god. If I write a screenplay, I'm a minor deity." Westlake died of a heart attack New Year's Eve while on a rare vacation, in Mexico...