Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After an uncertain start, director Norman Rene (a valued collaborator on all of Lucas' projects) finds a sure, subtle rhythm that honors both the script's delicacy and the boisterous demands of a date-night movie audience. Baldwin, who breathed this role so naturally in the play's off-Broadway stint that no one else needed apply for the movie version, is a terrific guide through Peter's decent bafflement. Ryan, new to the part, must work hard to get under Rita's skin, which she does beautifully at about the time someone else invades it. And Walker, a stage...
...show's premise: a human being and two robots are being held captive by mad scientists who make them watch bad, bad, bad science fiction movies. Throughout the film, the three sit in the front row of a movie theater, commenting drily on the acting, the plot and the script--all of which are crummy, very crummy...
...Bathtub is a modernized version of a Russian political satire script from the 1920s. The updated play takes on the issues of federal funding for science and the arts, industrial exploitation of nature, sexual harassment and Senator Jesse Helms...
...first Batman seemed a symptom of that malaise. Batman Returns is an antidote. For a start, it's alive, not an effects showcase in a shroud. Daniel Waters' script delights in elaborate wordplay and complex characters. "The characters are all screwed up," Burton notes. "I find that much more interesting." Returns tops the first movie's shrill wrestling match between Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) with a funnier, more lithe and daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they...
Nelson's recent academic work has particularlyspurred her interest in the connections betweenrace and gender. In lee's course, for example,Nelson has spoken out regularly about sexism infilms by Black directors. Lee challenged her towrite a move about Black women, and Nelson iscurrently working on a script based on her ownexperience as a Black woman at Harvard...