Word: scripting
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Ross (David Schwimmer) cracks the whip trying to force Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to write his own script. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) volunteers at the Salvation Army, but gets fired for threatening people who use her collector bin as a rubbish bin. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) dates Danny (George Newbern) but grows uneasy when she sees his "closeness" with his visiting sister (Julie Lauren...
...have given his actors the freedom not only to become their characters, but to create them as well. The result is a supporting cast which takes full advantage of the idiosyncrasies already in Havel's text and also adds their own level of comedic interpretation. Although Hostetler's script diverges very little from Havel's, when it does, the additions and deletions illustrate a highly developed sense of humor and an intimate knowledge of how far the text can be taken, since some of the show's funnier lines are not found in the original. The biggest risk Hostetler takes...
...first few minutes have promise (with an all-star list of Gen-X actors), and the last few minutes provide fun (with snapshots of lovers and losers). In between there is a void--feeble jokes, a lot of falling down and foolish declarations. Shana Larsen's script has the feel of a sitcom pilot, with the actors urged to make a quick impression. What's left? Fine turns by Courtney Love, Angela Featherstone, Dave Chapelle and Martha Plimpton. The film pushes them into mud, and they get up smelling sweet...
...reality, of course, history is not a movie. It resists simple plotting and easy moralizing. It is, in fact, a script trapped forever in development (and sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing...
Cage looks good on screen, dressed completely in black with a cigarette jutting out the side of his mouth, and his controlled presence is one reason why 8MM is such a strong, gripping thriller. The great strength of Walker's script is the way it plays on the viewer's emotions more and more as the story unfolds. When first viewed, the events on the eight millimeter film are shocking in their barbarity but not emotionally overwhelming because the girl is just a face with no identity. But as the plot develops, the viewer learns of the girl's past...