Word: script
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...Robeson often signed for films expecting script approval, only to feel trapped in stereotype by the time of shooting. So the camera catches him in the corpse of his original enthusiasm--an actor's version of passive resistance. Perhaps his naivety was as huge as his talent. He believed that Hollywood moguls would give a black actor (any actor) final cut, and that Stalinism was not slavery but liberation. Through three decades of Soviet tyranny (including the murder of one of his Russian-Jewish friends), he remained faithful to the U.S.S.R. And here his charm failed him. He could sell...
...appropriate too. From the beginning, storytellers and listeners have rooted for the underdog. Women, typically smaller than men and less schooled in the art of physical revenge, are the ultimate little guys. David Koepp kept this in mind when writing his Panic Room script: "The story is about physical survival, so you want the odds to be stacked high against your lead. By having the lead be a woman, it makes for more interesting drama, because there's further...
...Final Fantasy movie didn’t do nearly as well as Square hoped. The viewing public, it seems, is largely indifferent to paralytically cool fictitious machinery with 3-D holographic interfaces. Even I found my die-hard square loyalty taxed by the unamazing script. Word on the street has it that the company’s re-evaluating it’s direction. Final Fantasy 11 will be the first online version, and I imagine that like Quake or Sims or Tetris, this game will claim several of your friends. After that the future seems unclear...
...Phys is steeped in Dong’s own experiences at Harvard, from pursuing the connections between music and physics to wrestling with procrastination. The script is also filled with real-life Harvard characters like Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who in the play gives lengthy and complex physics explanations in a song that ends with the lyric, “But I’m sure you won’t have any problem with that...
Dong describes the music in his 258-page script as a combination of “traditional 16th-century choral singing, energetic Broadway dance numbers, cheesy pop ballads, 19th-century waltzes, and pretty much everything in between.” Les Phys also pokes fun at the Broadway genre, with a running Les Misérables gag and references to everything from The Sound of Music to “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the song lyrics. Heller reflects this playfulness in dance sequences that parody famous Broadway scenes. “There?...