Sentence examples for screenplay language from inspiring English sources

As the novel steams to its terminus, there is more than a little deus ex machina (in screenplay language, the term implies an unnatural, contrived ending).

Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki; United States production directors, John Lasseter, Brad Lewis and Peter Sohn; English-language screenplay by Melissa Mathison, translated from the original Japanese by Jim Hubbert; music by Joe Hisaishi; produced by Toshio Suzuki; released by Walt Disney Studios.

Yurek Bogayevicz's 1987 film "Anna" (Thursday and Saturday), for which she wrote her first English-language screenplay, won Sally Kirkland an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the struggles of a fading New York theater actress.

The French-language screenplay was adapted by René Sti.

During the early years of sound films before dubbing and subtitling, one way to present a film to a foreign audience was to record the film with a translated screenplay with foreign-language cast.

The 2010 Sorkin screenplay has snappy, syncopated language about Python Web servers and Pix firewall emulators.

Stoppard also adapted the French screenplay for the English-language film Vatel (2000), about a 17th-century chef, and wrote the screenplay for Enigma (2001), which chronicles the English effort to break the German Enigma code.

Wade has now tuned up the language of the screenplay.

Haneke's Amour won nods for leading actress (Emmanuelle Riva), foreign language film, original screenplay and best director.

That sly confusion between the beautiful and the gruesome extends to the language of the screenplay by Ms. Harron and Guinevere Turner.

It's worth a shot at other categories: last season, the Iranian film "A Separation" earned an original screenplay nod, the first foreign-language film in five years to do so.