I would give her dialogue, and she would write it down, then we would tweak it.
She likes to experiment with form: each play in the Elliot trilogy takes its structure from a different musical genre a Bach fugue, Coltrane jazz, Puerto Rican folk music which gives her poetic dialogue an almost ritualistic resonance.
But Swinton is the real star, her decision to render Marianne all but mute (the original script apparently gave her pages of dialogue) reaping silent scream rewards.
We gave her some temporary dialogue in the script, to have something down on paper, but I knew that it wouldn't be until I cast the right actress that the character would thicken out and ring true; only then could I find her the right words.
While her dialogue gives Portman more agency over her male characters on-screen, the stage directions and narration in the screenplay subtly gives male peers more power overall.
Ms. Baker gives an affecting portrayal, her dialogue consisting of sentence fragments and nonsense syllables.
Her next successes, Le Marin de Gibraltar (1952; The Sailor from Gibraltar) and Moderato cantabile (1958), were more lyrical and complex and more given to dialogue.
If only the scenes between Nico and Aaron were fresher, subtler, more surprising, but Prose has given their dialogue a flat tone and their relationship a predictable trajectory.
He said that he and his screenwriter Paul Laverty had deliberately given difficult dialogue to Cantona, who plays himself in the movie.
However, his discussion of the place of intergroup contact within the theory of multiculturalism is rather short (as compared to the central place given to dialogue).
