Every movie is an organic process, but he always had very definite ideas about what he wanted script-wise".
Script-wise, anything goes, including the lexical equivalents of a jukebox in a frontier saloon or a zip-up toga on a Roman senator.
Script-wise there are a few holes, and although the racism dimension adds depth overall it often feels shoe-horned in, for example when we learn the truth about the sisters' long-standing feud with their cousin.
There are also some entertaining interviews, laid out documentary-script-wise, with such luminaries as Noam Chomsky, the philosopher Hilary Putnam and Kripke himself, and Morris races off on tangents about Jorge Luis Borges, Pythagorean mathematics and armadillos, and down some deep Wittgensteinian rabbit holes (or duck-rabbit holes) about rules and language.
"It had been OK'ed, script-wise, and we went into production for that episode," Nichols recalled.
At the time Cohan's casting, however, she had been given little exposure to the character script-wise, and was unaware she would play a "nasty person".
But, in the '80s, a B-level movie, like some of the Joe Dante films, were scenario-wise and script-wise, not very conclusive, not very clean.
John Hughes' script is wise, timeless and endlessly quotable.
What elevates this is partly Moa Gammel, perhaps the most beautiful of all Scando-heroines in recent years, and a wise script which makes great nods to the folktales of forest history.
