Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Higginbotham]is organized, she's a fabulous historian, and she has a very rich syllabus," she said. "It's a very structured course. I'm just following her script...
...some as Italy's Robin Williams, though this comparison hardly seems adequate. The best way to describe Benigni is as a mime who speaks--his broadly funny body and facial movements complement a mellifluous, mile-a-minute verbal style, and, in the case of Life is Beautiful, a script that is wise, sympathetic and very often hysterically funny. Benigni knew he was taking risks in making the film, but he "was obsessed, in love with this idea," he says. "I was scared, but you're always scared when you're in love...
...Brit who shoots the film with familiar pizazz (low-angle shots, portentous slo-mo, some black-and-white scenes), made his name directing TV commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims are white...
Though the script has been in existence for over fifteen years and has traveled several continents, it continues to have about it an air of freshly improvised parody. As with improv, the humor has an underdeveloped quality--potential jokes are left unexploited while the existent ones lack the sharpness of revision. Like the movie Wag the Dog, the premise of Compleat Works is loaded with humorous potential that remains largely unmined. Lines like "a nose by any other name would still smell" are funny but pale when compared to the sardonic text-twisting of Tom Stoppard's comparable Rosencrantz...
...script itself falls short of supreme comic genius, the premise is redeemed in last weekend's production at the Loeb Ex. Actors Erik Amblad '99, Adam "Waka" Green '99 and Sabrina Howells (B.U.) recite the play's more lackluster puns with sarcasm, making a parody of the parody...