Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Avildsen's quest for the midline of American moviemaking keeps him from joining Stallone's exploitational bandwagon. He didn't want to take part in Rocky II, he said, because "I thought the script was really lame." Avildsen had hoped to make a Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near...
...Producer sits in his chair with the script and a red pen. As the others watch in silence (they are now too hoarse to talk), he crosses out the most expensive scenes...
...band's manager Malcolm McLaren. They defined the attitude of punk music; Sid and Nancy were just the creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex Cox's movie (from a script he wrote with Abbe Wool) is a 111-minute moral limbo dance: How low can you go? Underground, if you want, but don't expect anyone to follow...
Some CAST members say that there is a dearth of roles for Black actors in campus productions, citing a problem which many minority actors face in Hollywood. Unless the script specifically calls for Black characters--like Shakespeare's Othello or Alex Haley's Roots--Blacks usually aren't cast into plays. That's why Black CAST was created in the 1960s, says Sams, who calls the organization an "alternative drama experience...
...slickly produced volume includes the script for the film; the only thing to be said for it is that reading an English translation of a Japanese adaptation of an Elizabethan drama is boring indeed. The script does help to identify the subject of each otherwise untitled picture...