Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...desire to cut out before AIDS takes its toll. Posing as an expert on life, he spouts poetry with all sorts of pretentious and clumsy lines like "they could not hear his cries of sorrow." Evidently Silver intended a great deal with Todd's character, but his script trail him. some acceptable way of saying such silly things without cooing. Out of the struggle emerge two voices for Todd. One is angsty and rebellious, the other lilting and sentimental...
...angrily pitched a remote control across the room during yet another viewing of the trilogy when it didn't pause or rewind to the piece of information I needed. No longer. Now, thanks to some good person at National Public Radio and the Ballantine publishing group, the radio script is mine to peruse in the peaceful sanctum of my own room, and in some ways it's even better. It has truly made my Millenium...
Devotees of the "Star Wars" novels, which have continued the saga for ages, know that even if George Lucas isn't directly involved, he makes sure "Star Wars" spinoffs contain the quality thinking we expect The radio script is no exception...