Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After filming the action-tinged drama The Negotiator with Samuel L. Jackson this fall, Spacey will head to London next year for a stretch in The Iceman Cometh. Directors say he often applies theater disciplines to film. "He's like Meryl Streep because they both come at a movie script as if it's a play," says L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson. "They make the most out of their lines, while a lot of actors immediately try to change things." Spacey's earnest directorial debut this year, the box-office dud Albino Alligator, even seems like a filmed play since...
Versatile young team wins league crown. You can't go wrong with a script like that...
...movies as Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys, doesn't want to make the film, which stars Depp as Thompson's alter ego, the pharmacological adventurer Raoul Duke. It's just that he's not sure he wants to do it this way. "Tony Grisoni and I wrote the script in eight days, but we didn't like it, so we rewrote in two days," he says. "It's literally gonzo filmmaking. Day by day we don't know what we're doing." It's an approach Thompson could be proud of, especially with Gilliam's pet name...
...Soros is gleefully flouting the script for Act II. With a unique and astonishing passion for challenging conventional wisdom, he is leveraging his billions to move controversial ideas and speculate in policy. In the process, he has made himself the most influential, intriguing and to some the most infuriating philanthropist of our era. Says he: "When I was offered an honorary degree at Oxford, they asked me how I wanted to be described, and I said I would like to be called a financial, philanthropic and philosophical speculator...
They are a marvelously mixed lot, variously overweight, uptight, overage and ungraceful, and they are moved by a nice mix of persuasive motives in Simon Beaufoy's unforced script. Director Peter Cattaneo poises their conflict between need and shame lightly but firmly, and his actors--especially Mark Addy, whose Dave struggles touchingly with flab and impotence--achieve a similarly persuasive balance between the comedy and pathos of self-exposure. Will they ultimately dare the full monty (Britspeak for removing their G-strings) at the conclusion of their first show? That's eyes-only information. But to make an unembarrassing movie...