Word: scripted
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...fellow gladiator (played by Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) has no emotional resonance, nor does his bland romance (if you want to call it that) with the emperor's sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus!" it's a cheesy yet uplifting scene) which is noticeably absent from Scott's film, which is more of a relentless, almost...
Most of the speech adhered to Gore's normal campaign event script...
...employs can be just as orchestrated. The Governor rarely turns up in front of a camera these days without surrounding himself with African-American schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping with the script earlier in the week that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor buy health insurance...
Epps was given the Love & Basketball script by his agent, and he appreciated its strong feminist point of view. "The thing that really made me want to do it was how the female character got to have her cake and eat it too," he says. "It was just refreshing." He hopes the movie won't be seen merely as a black film or a basketball story. "The sports angle is just a tool to appeal to audiences," he says. "This is a love story; it's Romeo and Juliet." He's gratified that the story revolves around middle-class African...
...tendency to break into long sections of on-line chat. The problems of this inherently artificial form of communication are made even worse by clichd lines about safe sex, homophobia and unconditional love; with all of this linguistic burden to carry, it's no surprise that the script occasionally loses track of its plot, awkwardly stumbling over a few After School Special messages. Thankfully, though, director Eric Engel (Director of Memorial Hall/Sanders Theatre) still manages to blend Lucas' words into an (almost) seamless narrative journey to the dark side of greed, jealousy and betrayal. A combination of smooth technical savvy...