Lee's originality, as well as his modernism, lies in his translation of the free-form poetry of popular speech into script, performance, and images; his characters unleash a dazzling flow of patter that enlivens even dire circumstances, and the d.j. of the local storefront radio station (Samuel L. Jackson) looks out the window and chronicles street life in real time.
There are some areas where we are all really pushing each other, like Java script performance.
At Cannes, Peter Bradshaw praised the film's script, performances and cinematography - "almost Amish austerity in monochrome, which gives a wintry, end-of-the-world drear to that homely roadside Americana that Payne loves to pick out with his camera".
But literacy in Vai script improved performance on only a few language-related tasks.
Instead of the conventional, formulaic script about performance times and personal challenges, we were introduced to a laconic mod with a dry wit.
(Even a scene in which Erin, seized by vanity, screws up mightily is quickly brushed by, in script and performance alike).
Dean drew a sharp line between her private self and the improvised script her performance followed — a script she wrote on cocktail napkins and matchbook covers, and in the margins of other people's lives.
If moviemaking were like tinkering with a chemistry set, blending together script, direction, performance and design in a celluloid test-tube, these would be the compounds that begin to degrade before your eyes, producing foul, noxious fumes, burning your retinas with their glare and dissolving your work bench.
In the eight major categories Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Actress there are only four women who worked as either a writer or director on a nominated film, script, or performance.
"I would memorize my script or performance and I would be a little nervous if I got heckled--like 'Don't heckle me, I'm not good at comebacks!'".
Why bother with a script, or performances or reviews?
