Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Kathryn Walker's choice of cuts in the C.K. Williams translation make this production an affair of many monologues. Tim Foley and Scott M. Brown, as the first and second messengers, deliver their hefty chunks of script with appeal. Foley's description of the first sortie on Mt. Cithaeron is proof of a working knowledge of the rhetorical value of adynata (women suckling wolves, milk spurting from the ground, and other such impossibilities...
...archaeological dig in Winnepsaugusaukeeswampscott, Massachusetts, site of early Puritan settlements, historians have found fragments resembling banjos, harmonicas, large gold-plated belt buckles and, most amazingly, several pages of an early Hee-Haw script written on parchment. This startling evidence shows that the Puritans, sober settlers of Boston and founders of Harvard, may have had some contact with honky-tonk...
...script shows some early gems of Puritan "country" humor, including this bit: Earl: "Eddie, thy daughter is uglier than a possum with acne." Eddie: "It is predestined that she be so, to learn humility. Yeeeeeee-haw!" (Audience hangs Earl and Eddie for the sin of play-acting...
...problems with the film are not limited to stylistic issues: McGregor and Diaz display about as much chemistry as a pile of salt and, well, another pile of salt. It is difficult to tell whether or not the two actors really have no connection at all or if the script is to blame; either way, something has gone terribly wrong somewhere in the creative process...
...this only makes more obvious the fault of the entire movie: a lack-luster script spiced up with more action than compelling plot. This general lack of scintillating language and not wholly original scenes grew even more grating through the stereotypical portrayal of rural Ireland that, in attempting to appear sweet, seemed oppressively imaginary...