Word: scripting
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...played by Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, who sports one of the more grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding out the collection are the New Main Street Singers, whose leaders practice some sort of color-based religion that is far too ludicrous...
...part of his campaign to westernize Turkey and raise literacy rates, Atatürk lanched a massive government and publicity campaign to replace the complicated Arabic script the country had used for hundreds of years. The work bears a colorful frontispiece showing a boy and girl riding a stork, which delivers a bundle of letters to the cheerful homes below, as though the alphabet were a new baby...
...years ago when Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which was partly shot in Angkor Wat, mistakenly showed people wearing Vietnamese hats, not Cambodian ones?an unwelcome reminder of Cambodia's historic enemies. But besides trimming a few ultra-violent scenes, Dillon was required to do little more than translate the script for curious officials. "I was afraid of censorship, but they seemed more concerned that the movie was truthful," says Dillon, "even if it didn't say the most flattering things about the country...
...refusing to do "pro-cultural" films, he has more paying work than he has ever had before, doing Willard and both Charlie's Angels movies to finance his own very strange countercultural films. And he wouldn't compromise much even then. "When I first read the Charlie's Angels script, I didn't like it. But [the director] McG said he wanted to hear my ideas. I told him I wanted my character to be silent," he says. It may be the most brilliant solution ever to bad writing...
...seriously, though. (Sarandon plays a juicily over-the-top villainess, in a getup that makes her look like an evil B-52s singer.) You could write an encyclopedia detailing all the Tolkienesque mythology, invented religions and backstory behind the Dune novels--in fact, someone did--but the script does a good job of illustrating the action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more as a juicy religio-political soap opera, in which respect...