Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both side of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...Irish troubles, as the English call the battle between Protestants and Catholics for control of Northern Ireland, are at heart a fratricidal family squabble. So maybe a few steely mothers can stanch the blood sport. Some Mother's Son, which Terry George directed from his and Jim Sheridan's script, documents the 1981 hunger strike led by IRA soldier Bobby Sands (John Lynch) and the attempt by mothers of Sands' jailed cohorts to keep their boys from dying. Despite her natural caution, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), an apolitical teacher, is persuaded, by an IRA sympathizer (Fionnula Flanagan) and by loyalty...
...Nightmare on Elm Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids on TV's Party...
...which has wavered between big roles in bad films (Shanghai Surprise) and smaller parts in an occasional decent one (A League of Their Own)--got even bumpier. In 1993 she starred in Body of Evidence, a steamy courtroom drama that bombed with critics and audiences. She complains that the script was changed so that her character, a sex-obsessed vixen on trial for murder, was killed in the end. "In all the movies of the '40s the bad girl has to die," she says. "What I loved about the role was that she didn...
...that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates, the John Hodge script and Danny Boyle's direction couldn't be more vital. Aesthetically, at least, Trainspotting chooses life...