Sometimes a star arrives with no story, or with a story so pat that you could guess it while knowing only a bit of the script.
A whopping great profile of a stag that'd stretch across a chest to cover a little bit of script.
A whopping great profile of a deer that'd stretch across a chest to cover a little bit of script.
Mr. O'Toole's effortless precision puts Ms. Whittaker, making her film debut, at a bit of a disadvantage, as does the script's somewhat blurry conception of her character.
However, you also see a bit of anti-script-kiddie outrage in their posts as well as a strange sense of entitlement in their "customers" ("Please don't abandon us like that for Weeks again please. Just write something at all so we know you're working on fixing everything, eventually". writes one commenter) This odd interplay is half-open-source project and half-co-dependant drug addict.
"Because of that designers can't just think in terms of form, function and meaning when they develop new objects, they have to learn a bit of script writing too".
Although Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph described it as "at times... a bit of a mess," he praised Holzman's script, described Kenneth Posner's lighting design as "magical" and lauded Menzel's Elphaba and Helen Dallimore's Glinda.
What happens in their hatchback over the next three days is a brilliantly realised bit of scripting and playing: a moving and often extremely funny union that doesn't shy away from awkwardness or tragedy.
There is still no voiceover, but it is impossible not to read that bit of script without thinking it in a mental voice dripping with incredulous sarcasm.
Chaplin was a demanding director, a perfectionist just as driven as Stanley Kubrick (like him, he could demand as many as a hundred takes for a single scene) and an improviser as inventive as Mike Leigh, working from a ghost of a script and seeing how bits of dramatic "business" turned out on film.
