And part of the credit goes to Jennifer Lee's team, for the choices they consciously made to make the screenplay as complex as it was.
I also admired the screenplay's complex interplay between self-made working-class men trapped in a dynast's playground, between ardent American super-patriots aping the steeplechasing pursuits of the former colonial oppressor and their kept men in the wrestling barn.
The movie's good intentions, however, are undercut by the bulk of this fact-based drama, which compresses a painful, complex tale into a plodding, sketchy screenplay that, sadly, is not enlivened by either direction or performances.
Working from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, Cronenberg investigates the complex, painful and fraught relationship between Freud and Jung, played by Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender, centring on a patient they both treated: the neurotic and beautiful Sabina, played by Keira Knightley.
Or a complex character not fleshed-out enough in the screenplay?
Breznican: A screenplay mention for "Labor Day," a complex and emotional narrative that I think was under-appreciated at the Toronto festival and never got the awards push it should have.
Although Ms. Jenkins's screenplay gives her the seeds to create a complex portrait, Ms. Ricci resists plumbing Selby's selfish, shallow exterior to discover her humanity.
Kieran Fitzgerald and Director Oliver Stone have written a screenplay which clearly runs us through a minefield of complex technical and legal issues, balancing them against their personal consequences to the film's characters.
And that's fun for us, because we can go back to the more complex story that we had in the big budget version of the screenplay.
At the time, he was living in an apartment complex in West Hollywood (the inspiration for "Melrose Place"), and his unproduced screenplays soon won him a reputation as someone who could write dialogue for teenagers.
