Word: scripted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scripted overacting, Chazz Palminteri, as Cheech (Olive's bodyguard), seems subtle and slick. Cheech appears at first as the quintessential Italian mafia strong man, tough and curt and not overly smart, but quickly becomes the most interesting character in the film (largely due to Palmenteri's fabulous performance), a moody genius with a big gun. The intelligence of the script is particularly apparent here: rather than trying to transform Cheech from a hood to an artist, Allen is content to make him an artistic hood, which Palminteri plays to the hilt...
...Friel undermines the superficial gloss of each character. At the same time, he reveals the gradually deteriorating status of the Mundy family itself. But he never indicates which aspect is more real--which interpretation more true. The script embraces self-contradiction with open arms...
...script for ER had been sitting in Crichton's trunk since 1974, when the former Harvard medical student wrote it as a movie screenplay. It languished until the late 1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...
...says fellow executive producer John Wells, a former China Beach hand who was brought in to run the show. Spielberg too has been a surprisingly active presence. Supervising producer Robert Nathan says that for one episode he wrote, Spielberg sent him three-page memos on each draft of the script. Later Spielberg watched the rough cut and offered more suggestions. "He was amazing," says Nathan. "He would look at a scene and say, 'I think Take 2 was a little dryer.' He remembered everything from the dailies two or three weeks earlier...
...main problem with the script is its unevenness. The script at times has potential. When John humorously recounts his first, loveless sexual encounter with Jessica (Liz Hanify), a soul-mate in unrequited love with a passion for the unattainable Greg, he describes losing his virginity "to Lisa and Jessica and...Greg...