I mean, he'd done these really, really inventive screenplays, some of which got made but none of which kind of hit the sweet spot.
In an attempt to liven things up, the screenplay gets inventive, fantasising all sorts of romantic nonsense.
'It's such a positive film,' says dour-faced co-star Max von Sydow in the accompanying featurette and indeed it is, thanks to Ronald Harwood's intelligent screenplay, Janusz Kaminski's inventive cinematography, and Schnabel's unabashed artistic ambition.
The screenplay, by Jerry Juhl, is less inventive, but then it must cope with the challenge of retelling Dickens in terms that will register with young children.
The screenplay by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller is endlessly inventive in the ways it acknowledges its own conventions, and it earns countless laughs with its meta-commentary ('How about we save time and pick up the rest of the gang using a montage?') without ever becoming smug or obnoxious.
Dave Kehr of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, saying: "Anderson's screenplay provides a steady series of inventive action situations, and the director, Alexander Witt, makes the most of them.
Briskly directed by Christopher Smith (who also contributed to the screenplay), "Severance" overcomes its narrative deficiencies with inventive bloodletting and no small amount of wit.
The director, Joel Coen, who wrote the screenplay with his brother Ethan, who was the producer, is inventive and amusing when it comes to highly composed camera setups or burying someone alive.
There's hilarious voice-work artistry, ceaselessly inventive pop-culture riffs ("Ooooh – reference!" says someone), eyeball-popping graphics and a 107-minute nonstop gag-storm of a screenplay from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
With the help of the Academy Award-winning cinematography of Burnett Guffey and an Oscar-niminated screenplay by David Newman and Robert Benton, the outlaws Clyde Barrow Warrenn beatty) and Bonnie Parker Faye Dunawayy) and transformed into Depression-era folk heroes in this inventive and ultimately bloody tale.
