Sentence examples for half of the script from inspiring English sources

Vidal claimed that he worked on the first half of the script (everything up to the chariot race), and scripted 10 versions of the scene where Ben-Hur confronts Messala and begs for his family's freedom.

The storylines are closely guarded – even they have only read half of the script.

Unlike most movies today, it was made in sequence because only the first half of the script was ready when shooting began.

He wrote half of the script for God's Own Country in a static caravan on his dad's farm and the other half in London.

"I ended up writing almost half of the script, and the fact it was mostly based on my life was very strange," Sven tells me over the phone.

Unusually, the film was shot in sequence, mainly because only the first half of the script was ready when filming began.

Hanks revealed that he signed onto the film after an hour and a half of reading the script.

Anderson and Wilson share a similar cinematic sensibility, from the signature pop soundtracks (though Coppola tends to use '80s post-punk, while Anderson favors '60s British rock) to the wry half-laugh tone of the script to the straight deliveries of the actors against a comically stylized tableau.

The dialogue of The Emperor Jones may be dominated by one character, but more than half the script is made up of stage directions: swaths of the play are wordless and filled with the lurid distortions of dream.

I say that O'Neil is the star of the first half because when the script finally stops building up its inane and uninteresting mythology, we shift perspective over to the titular turtles.

There's as much dream as declamation in O'Neill's drama; more than half the script is made up of stage directions, which leave ample room for manoeuvre.