Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Rather than tread the sitcom writer route, Shenson and Lester selected Alun Owen, an acclaimed Liverpudlian playwright, to write the script. Owen was finely attuned to the nuances of the rough working-class humor indigenous to Liverpool, and rather than impose artificial comedic personas on the Beatles, he simply constructed larger-than-life interpretations of traits he observed in the individual Beatles...
...film. The surprise of the ending, like other aspects of the film, is very obviously foreshadowed moments before it happens, which detracts from the emotional shock. Perhaps Unbreakable would have benefited from additional editing or a different director, because Shyamalan is unable to convey the point of his script to his viewer...
That prospect won't quiet her, though. Says her friend Anita Mitchell-Bridgeman, a Republican lobbyist: "Carol doesn't know how to follow a script." And forget subtlety. "You don't have to wonder where she's coming from because she tells...
...warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that were unimaginable one day become probable the next: It will go to the House, no, to the Senate; Gore will cast the tie-break vote; Could Strom Thurmond end up president? Dick Cheney's fourth heart attack fit the script for a week of jumpy tempers and raw nerves...
...himself, but he's always had incredibly funny moments in his movies and I think his new movie is actually a step beyond. There's more of a concept to it than his other movies. There's a world in there. He worked harder on it than any other script. I hope critics cut him some slack...