tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63432930978826536212024-02-02T23:54:46.250+01:00InSight: MoviesMovies, Script Reviews and Screenplays by Tristan MahlowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-54997085585208597942016-10-10T11:44:00.001+02:002016-10-10T11:54:00.936+02:00New Direction for InSight: Movies<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it's been <b>two years</b> since my last published post on this blog. I've countless drafts, but never pushed the button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I came to the conclusion that chasing a career as a Hollywood screenwriter is a great dream, but not a dream worth chasing. <b>I married<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and</span> became a father, I started writing prose - all three more fullfilling than dreaming of Hollyood</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I published six novellas in those two years; hundreds of people have read my words. A success I would never see writing screenplays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But my love for movies hasn't changed. So, what will I do with this blog, that has over 150.000 views already?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will focus solely on <b>fantasy / science-fiction books and their possible adaptation to the big screen</b>, just like I already have done in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hollywood mines the book shops instead of buying original screenplays, so this step is only logical for this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="freeTextContainer12342268057673675122">In the realm of Alera,
where people bond with the furies-elementals of earth, air, fire, water
and metal, fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of
furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos - when rebels war with
loyalists and furies clash with furies - Tavi's simple courage will turn
the tides of war. (Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396.Furies_of_Calderon">Goodreads</a>)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In my opinion, the "<i><b>Pokemon</b></i>" meets "<i><b>Lost Roman Legion</b></i>" Fantasy Book could translate pretty well to the big screen. A future writer would have to trim down overtly dragging scenes in the middle part of the book. I really liked the down-to-earth fantasy, which should mirror in a classic movie direction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My best comparison would be: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><b><i>Avatar - The Last Airbender</i></b></a>, both have mythical powers connected to the elements; both world take heavy influence from real history, Ancient China and Ancient Rome, respectively. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ne Ro over at Pinterest has created a <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/nero03/casting-call-codex-alera/">Casting Shee</a>t; head over there and tell me if you agree or not. Some Stars include Nicole Kidman, Ellen Page, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the
Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to
infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings.
Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only
watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do
anything to practice. Then students start disappearing — kidnapped from
their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. Assigned to help the
professor who is investigating the crimes, Joel and his friend Melody
find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery, one that will
change Rithmatics — and their world — forever. (Source: <a href="http://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-rithmatist/the-rithmatist/">brandonsanderson.com</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Rithmatist could fill the void left by the end of the Harry Potter saga. The books are the same in that they both play largely at a school for magic. This is the greatest in for every marketing director... But the similarities end right there, because Joel can not use magic - but this doesn't stop him from investigating the kidnappings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Rithmatist plays in an alternative history of the United States, which consists of several islands connected by a train network, making for a great, interesting setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But, and that is the most important aspect, the story pulls the reader through the book without letting go. The plot is intriguing, layered and exciting - and would transport without effort onto the silver screen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another nice bonus: the budget is rather manageable. There are only a few key roles to be cast, no huge sets or battles. If this is a blockbuster, his other books are just waiting to be turned into movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Director</b>: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1481493/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Gil Kenan</a> (<i>Monster House, City of Ember</i>) could bring the right visual appeal and YA'ness to it. Right now he is in Post-Production on the Poltergeist-Remake.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-74199525598711055352014-02-22T19:19:00.001+01:002014-02-22T19:19:05.785+01:00Pacific Rim Box-Office Recap <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back in May 2012 I wrote a <a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.com/2012/05/pacific-rim-script-review.html">review of the Pacific Rim Script</a>. You might recall, that I wasn't thrilled. Now that I saw the movie I wanted to see how well it dit, box-office-wise.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My prognosis was that the movie might bomb. Well, did it?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Pacific-Rim#tab=summary">The-Numbers</a>, we know that the movie earned $100mill domestically, which comes as close to bombing as possible, considering the production budget of nearly $200mill. Add to that another $200mill for Marketing and you have a real desaster. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why then, is there talk of "<i><b>Pacific Rim 2</b></i>"? Sources like <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/guillermo-del-toro-confirms-pacific-rim-2-is-still-alive-and-being-written-now/">Slashfilm </a>hint at a sequel, being written right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have to look overseas for an answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Internationally, Pacific Rim earned $300mill. The foreign box-office, especially in China, which is the strongest growing market for movies, can make or break movies nowadays. In the example of Pacific Rim, approx. a third of the foreign box-office came from China. More precisely, $111mill - a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ccording to <a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=pacificrim.htm">Box Office Mojo</a>. That is more than the domestic market! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other movies, for example <a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=ironman3.htm">Iron Man 3</a> earned $120mill, starting a new trend in Hollywood. Usually, movies had to earn back their budget domestically, with the foreign box-office as a nice bonus. Now, Hollywood has to take the foreign box-office - and especially China - into account, when they green-light movies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dependence might actually stem from another problem. As I analyzed in another blog post,<a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-rising-cost-of-fantasy.html"> genre movies are getting more expensive</a>. Ten years ago, the cost for an average fantasy movie was around $60mill. Today the median budget is $120mill. This means, to break even, a movie must sell twice the amount of movie tickets. Quite impossible, I think, as the population of the USA hasn't doubled in the last 10 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to make a profit, Hollywood is dependent on the foreign market. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it is this foreign market, Hollywood hopes to cater to with a sequel to Pacific Rim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you and have a nice day!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-85306410269959187962013-09-27T15:44:00.002+02:002014-02-22T19:19:40.822+01:00Book to Movie: Rivers of London (Midnight Riot) by Ben Aaronovitch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3,93 Stars of 5 by 10,912 ratings (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8680417-midnight-riot?ac=1">Goodreads</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The novel centres around the adventures of Peter Grant, a young officer in the Metropolitan Police; who, following an unexpected encounter with a ghost, is recruited into the small branch of the Met that deals with magic and the supernatural.</span></div>
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Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in
fifty years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately
inter-related cases. In one he must find what is possessing ordinary
people and turning them into vicious killers, and in the second he must
broker a peace between the two warring gods of the River Thames (Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_London_%28novel%29">Wiki</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In June news broke, that <a href="http://www.feelfilms.co.uk/">Feel Films</a> (London based production company, that holds the rights for <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell</i>) has optioned <i>Rivers of London</i> for television. (Source: <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/rivers-of-london/26102/exclusive-rivers-of-london-coming-to-television">DenOfGeek</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I expect, that one series/season with roughly four to six episodes will tell the story of one book. My answer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Yes</b>, it will be a good series, due to the combination of fantasy elements with the traditional crime genre. It has a great plot, like-able and interesting characters as well as heaps of fantasy. British television has hit a streak right now (Doctor Who, Downton Abby, Luther, Sherlock) - which brings up the hope for a great Rivers of London series.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But why not a movie? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The visuals and scope do not necessarily demand the high-budget of a movie, and I think, that more time to develop the characters and the story will actually help the finished product. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another reason why a movie company will never ever make a movie based on the books (even if there were no television series) is the simple fact, that we saw something similar bomb at the box-office: <b>R.I.P.D.</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7nB-41nQFviAM7tvoI2qeqAr1Nu0MuQjV4caaL2Ll1NIV72IaYnWJDmlN7yZ9_w8LsZciLOQ0aDoW4lWs2eI3VDim7FLFEkSWwWmuzIqVeTXstyJVVFyQrOLnwf3DSYICnSqZkZLqD4/s1600/R.I.P.D._Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7nB-41nQFviAM7tvoI2qeqAr1Nu0MuQjV4caaL2Ll1NIV72IaYnWJDmlN7yZ9_w8LsZciLOQ0aDoW4lWs2eI3VDim7FLFEkSWwWmuzIqVeTXstyJVVFyQrOLnwf3DSYICnSqZkZLqD4/s320/R.I.P.D._Poster.jpg" height="320" width="216" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With an estimated budget of $130 Million the Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds led movie only earned $70 Million in the world-wide box office. The greatest similarity of course is the formula: cops + fantasy. In theory that sounds good, but the script had <a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.de/2011/04/scripted-ripd-2010-by-phil-hay-matt.html">many problems as I wrote two years ago</a>. The protagonist was bland, the motivation unclear and the ending really unsatisfaying. For the next few years the "cop + fantasy" idea will be avoided in Hollywood like the plague. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the victims could have been a possible Rivers of London adaption, but thankfully we will get a series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Distant worlds with exotic creatures, epic battles, larger-than-life villains - all that comes to mind, when we think about fantasy movies. Fantasy - like Science Fiction - opens up a world of dreams, like a keyhole into everything imaginable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wondered, why are there so few<i> </i>fantasy movies? I took a look at the box office statistics of the last years to find a reason, and I think, I found one. The following graph shows the Median Budget of General Fiction Movies for this year (Blue) and the Median Budget for Fantasy Movies (Orange) in millions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The average budget of general fiction movies roughly stays the same over the last 17 years with numbers between 60 and 80 Million Dollars. But the orange line slowly rises, as we can see, from 30 Million to 120 Million. The budget of fantasy movies has quadrupled in the same period of time. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What does that mean?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fantasy is expensive. For the cost of one fantasy movie the studio could make two non-fantasy movies - that would mean two streams of revenue for the studio. Remember, big budget movies are not a guarantee to earn back the cash (as Disney learned once again with <i>The Lone Ranger</i>, after their failure with <i>John Carter</i>). So it's a rough game to play for every studio.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But why are studios willing to produce big budget movies?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Foremost studios want to earn money. So if they invest a lot of money, they must hope to earn a lot of money. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the second graph, the orange line still shows the rise of the average budget of fantasy movies. The blue line shows the share of fantasy movies in the annual box-office (in percent, see left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is eye-catching, that both lines rise in near perfect harmony. Starting with only 1 - 10 % of the box-office share, the line </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">slowly </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">rises until it crosses the 20% mark. In effect, the share of revenue has more than doubled in 17 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That's why studios are <i>willing </i>to pay huge amounts of money: the market hungers for fantasy and they want their piece of the box-office pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the last decade the demand for fantasy movies slowly rose and created a new, big market for Hollywood. Consequently, studios greenlight high budgets in the hope to create a huge hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But studios can not produce dozens of high budget movies every year, they concentrate on a few, select tent-poles.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-69530966171132901262013-08-02T11:08:00.004+02:002014-03-03T17:41:36.364+01:00Book to Movie: The Lies of Locke Lamora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The L<span style="font-size: small;">ies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch</span></span></span></b></h2>
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Elite con artists "Gentlemen Bastards" rob the rich of Camorr city, based on late medieval Venice. Two stories interweave. In the present, the
Gentlemen fight a mysterious Grey King taking over the criminal
underworld. Alternate chapters describe history and mythology of Camorr,
the Gentlemen Bastards, and especially the protagonist Locke Lamora.(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora" target="_blank">Source: Wiki</a>)<br />
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<span id="freeText17356186368131323070">Born with a quick wit
and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora dodges both death and slavery,
only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains,
neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains
passes his skills on to his carefully selected family of orphans
“Gentlemen Bastards.” <br /><br />Locke grows to lead, delightedly pulling
off one outrageous trick after another, infamous as the Thorn of Camorr —
no wealthy noble is safe from his sting. But the Gray King is slowly
killing Capa Barsavi’s most trusted men and using Locke as a pawn in his
plot to take control of Camorr’s underworld. With a bloody coup under
way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in
his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the magically protected Gray
King at his own brutal game — or die trying</span> (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127455.The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora">Source: Goodreads</a>)</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The ingredients are there:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">- an engaging plot, full of twists and turns</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">- a fantasy world with a mythical history </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All the movie needs is a creative, fearless cook, or in other words, a capable director. This is a rather broad statement, I know, <i>every movie needs a good director</i>. The one needed for Locke Lamora, has to be incredibly visual. The world of Camorr - based on Renaissance Venice - is stunningly wonderful and rich. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The challenge would be to reduce the dense plot to movie-length without losing the charm and wit of the book.</span><br />
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Warner Brothers
bought the film rights soon after the book's release. The brothers <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1156984/">Kevin</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1087952/">Dan Hageman</a> (both having written the upcoming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/">Lego</a> and the sequel
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2510894/">Hotel Transylvania 2</a>) were to write the screenplay. Michael De Luca (Moneyball, The Social Network) and
Julie Yorn (Red Riding Hood, We bought a Zoo) are set to produce. Both don't have much experience with fantasy works, which could prove difficult. </div>
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Despite additional television rumors, as of 2013, no casting or other announcements have been released. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora">Source: Wiki</a>)</div>
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Definitely the first! I suggest a movie adaptation, because the single thread of storytelling revolving around Locke Lamora probably couldn't sustain multiple episodes. But with 6 (SIX!) planned sequels (plus two upcoming novellas) "The Lies of Locke Lamora" could prove to be the opening to a stellar franchise. </div>
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He proved to be a big hit with the girls in Stephanie Meyer's <i>Twilight </i>and <i>The Host</i>,
which could attract more viewers. Irons has the right mix of cunning
and charm to portrait the leader of the "Gentleman Bastards". </div>
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The muscle to Locke's Brain, Jean is intimidating and strong. The upcoming star had a few indie hits and now moved on to star in the 4th <i>Transformer </i>movie.</div>
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He is the main adversary; the brains behind the dangerous plots Locke
finds himself tangled in. Fuelled my motives he is initially unwilling
to reveal, the Grey King is ruthless but aristocratic in his mannerisms. (Source: <a href="http://www.camorr.com/content/characters-lies-locke-lamora">camorr.com</a>) Incidentally he is the father of actor Max Irons, which adds a great dynamic to the movies. Jeremy has a great, commanding presence with the right gravitas to the play the Grey King. </div>
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Perhaps the most formidable adversary in LoLL. The Falconer is a
bondsmage from Karthain with otherworldly magical power, able to inflict
extraordinary pain with just a few words and gestures. He is an
arrogant, forbidding individual who takes obvious pleasure in the
torture of others and works for the Grey King. He also has a bird
companion, Vestral, whose violent nature and venom-filled claws augment
the Falconer’s formidable presence. (Source: <a href="http://www.camorr.com/content/characters-lies-locke-lamora">camorr.com</a>) Bale has strong ties with Warner Bros (<i>The Dark Knight Trilogy</i>, etc) and is a great property to attract viewers. Bale has the right ambiguity and "evil-ness" to play this great role.</div>
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Lawrence proved over and over, that he is a great storyteller with a keen eye for heavy visuals with his movies <i>Constantine </i>or <i>I am Legend</i>. This was the reason he was chosen to adapt the second and third book in the <i>Hunger Games</i> Saga, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wiki: The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn_series" target="_blank"><b>Mistborn</b> </a>series is four high fantasy novels written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson" title="Brandon Sanderson">Brandon Sanderson</a> and published by Tor Fantasy between 2006 and 2008. The series consists of the original trilogy of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn:_The_Final_Empire" title="Mistborn: The Final Empire">Mistborn: The Final Empire</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn:_The_Well_of_Ascension" title="Mistborn: The Well of Ascension">Mistborn: The Well of Ascension</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn:_The_Hero_of_Ages" title="Mistborn: The Hero of Ages">Mistborn: The Hero of Ages</a></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sanders<span style="font-size: small;">on crafted a unique vision<span style="font-size: small;"> with <span style="font-size: small;">acti<span style="font-size: small;">on-packed sequences, interesting characters<span style="font-size: small;">, many plot t<span style="font-size: small;">wists <span style="font-size: small;">in </span>a strange an<span style="font-size: small;">d alluring wo<span style="font-size: small;">rld. The first book is a '<span style="font-size: small;">Oceans<span style="font-size: small;"> 11' like <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>rew pitted against a<span style="font-size: small;">n immortal tyrannt<span style="font-size: small;">. The <span style="font-size: small;">idea works so well<span style="font-size: small;">,<span style="font-size: small;"> but <span style="font-size: small;">is already hi<span style="font-size: small;">ghly visual and <span style="font-size: small;">could be easily adapted into a movie.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Peter V. Brett.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wiki:</i></span> The novel follows three POV
characters in their passage from childhood to maturity. They are
inhabitants of a world plagued by the attacks of demons known as <i>corelings</i>,
which rise from the planet's core each night to feast upon humans. The
ongoing attrition of these attacks have reduced humanity from an
advanced state of technology to a 'dark age'. The only defense against
the corelings are <i>wards</i> (magical runes) that can be drawn,
painted, or inscribed to form protective barriers around human
settlements. These are, however, fragile and prone to failure unless
properly maintained. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Man#Summary" target="_blank">Source</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Painted / Warded Man is a <i><b>fun ride</b></i>, full of action-packed sequences but with little emotional impact. <span style="font-size: small;">Additionally,</span> the obstacles are quite easy for the characters to overcome, <span style="font-size: small;">robbing the <span style="font-size: small;">reader<span style="font-size: small;"> or viewer of emotional investment. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do not confuse this with a<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Lord</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i> of the Rings</i> <span style="font-size: small;">style epic<span style="font-size: small;">. The sc<span style="font-size: small;">ope is much smaller, the stakes <span style="font-size: small;">never reach those heights<span style="font-size: small;">, but <span style="font-size: small;">p</span></span>erhaps the sequels '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desert_Spear" target="_blank">The Desert Spear</a>' and 'The Daylight War'<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: small;">broaden the image.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my opinion, it could be a<span style="font-size: small;">n <i><b>entertaining movie</b></i> with good actors lending depth to otherwise shallow protagonists<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">... a<span style="font-size: small;">lthough the first news are mor<span style="font-size: small;">e than <span style="font-size: small;">troub<span style="font-size: small;">ling<span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bac<span style="font-size: small;">k in </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">2009 The Ho<span style="font-size: small;">llywood Reporter broke the news, that Paul W. S. Anders<span style="font-size: small;">on (left) and his produ<span style="font-size: small;">cing <span style="font-size: small;">partner Jer<span style="font-size: small;">emy Bolt picked up t<span style="font-size: small;">he rights for The Painted Man / The Warded Man. <span style="font-size: small;">Bo<span style="font-size: small;">th produced the Resident Evil - Franchise<span style="font-size: small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">whose five movies grossed nearly <span style="font-size: small;">1 billion dollar in worldwide bo<span style="font-size: small;">x off<span style="font-size: small;">ice<span style="font-size: small;"> (<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=residentevil.htm" target="_blank">Box Office Mojo</a>)<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">The critics on the <span style="font-size: small;">other hand were less than enthusiastic<span style="font-size: small;"> with the latest outing only re<span style="font-size: small;">ceiving <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil_retribution/" target="_blank">31%</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil_retribution/" target="_blank"> on </a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil_retribution/" target="_blank">RottenTomatoes</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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The slow-paced script can't balance the flashback heavy sequences with any urgent goal in the present. Unfortunately it drags along like a life-less zombie itself. </div>
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We meet Gerry and his family, when the script opens with them trying to escape Philadelphia. Zombie hordes run over the town and the military forces try to fight them back.They are headed north in the hopes the cold will keep the Zombies at bay. Two years pass, Gerry and his family return to the destroyed city of Philadelphia, trying to rebuild his life after the Zombie Infection. On page 20 Gerry is offered a job by the UN to write a report on the Zombie War, find out who was responsible. He starts - although his wife is against it - interviewing people to determine the cause of the Zombie infection. The script utilizies flashbacks to convey the individual stories, that are told to Gerry. Quickly it becomes clear, that no government really wants him to finish that report, that they are afraid of his findings. Gerry travels to China, where the infection started. Although the government nuked the infected zones, it spread via illegal organ transplantation to Germany. But even in Berlin most all officials brush off Gerry. In between the interviews, we see flashbacks to the hard time Gerry and his family spent up north. Next stop for Gerry is Israel, where the Mossad figured out first was what happening in China. Finally he finds out, that General Radeker devised a plan to save half of humanity by using the other half as bait for the Zombies. Back in the US Gerry writes his report, revealing that delay, self-centeredness, greed and ignorance caused the outbreak and spread of the Zombie plague. Consequently his report is gutted and censored, after Gerry handed it in. But he takes one uncensored copy and publishes it to show what really happenend.<br />
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- The movie takes place after everything happened, after they fought of the Zombies. This is an interesting point of narration, but seems a little dull - especially in the second act. Nothing really happens in the plot, Gerry only discovers little clues all over the world about what happened in the past. So, what are the stakes? What is the goal? <br />
- On the final pages Gerry tells us that greed, ignorance, egoism caused the Zombie plague. I am not so sure, that I want to watch two hours of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="Brad Pitt">Brad Pitt</a> interviewing some people to come to that conclusion. It might work in the subtlety of a novel, but feels rather forced in a movie script. It may sound strange, but if he had uncovered some really disturbing things, facts that twisted the whole truth, it could have been different. Greed and egoism are themes, weaved into the plot of a story, not something you should talk about so openly.<br />
- The rewrites might be a good thing for the movie as Lindelof knows how write heavy-handed action. While the original premise is rather interesting, a little more lifeblood can turn this into a great project.<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="World War Z">World War Z</a> will star Brad Pitt (who is also producing) as Gerry. Called a 'genre changing' zombie movie, it will be directed by Marc Foster (Kite Runner, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830515/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="Quantum of Solace">Quantum of Solace</a>). Recently news broke that heavy re-shooting has started, including 7 weeks of shooting and a re-write by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="Damon Lindelof">Damon Lindelof</a>. Slashfilm.com points to director Marc Foster as the man to blame for the re-shoots. Although he has a good track record with smaller drama films like Kite Runner or <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308644/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="Finding Neverland">Finding Neverland</a>, he seems to lack the skills to direct a massive, action-oriented movie. We will find out June 2013!</div>
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<b>Short Review: </b>Paying homage to the Japanese 'Giant Monster vs. Giant Robots' Genre (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju" target="_blank">Wiki: Kaiju</a>) Guillermo del Toro not only takes over the insane fights, but also the flat characterization and linear plots. Unfortunately, the script uses every known cliche available and thus fails to connect with the audience. </div>
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<b>Plot: </b>When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from
the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume
humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a
special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers,
which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked
in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless
in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces
defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes - a
washed up former pilot (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402271/" target="_blank">IMDb: Charlie Hunnam</a>) and an untested trainee (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452860/" target="_blank">IMDb: Rinko Kikuchi</a>) - who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete
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<b>How does it end? </b><br />
<b>(BEWARE: SPOILERS!)</b> The B-Story delivers - without making any effort to feel organically to the story - the solution to the problem, when a young scientist discovers that a nuclear bomb will close the rift between the universes. But someone has to bring the bomb to the other side and set it off. This isn't exactly a new idea (especially now that everybody and their mother has seen '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/" target="_blank">The Avengers</a>', which used the exact same idea recently). Of course, our unlikely heroes have to go into the 'Pacific Rim' and set off the bomb, fighting of giant monsters on their way. But in the end they succed, close the rift and return home.</div>
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<b>Project:</b> Originally, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868219/" target="_blank">del Toro</a> (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 + 2) was set to direct an adaptation of <i>'</i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118070/" target="_blank">At the Mountains of Madness</a>', however, after Universal closed down the project, he switched his attention to '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/" target="_blank">Pacific Rim</a>'. Originally, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/" target="_blank">Tom Cruise</a>, who was going the play the lead role in 'At the Mountains of Madness', was going to star in the film, but he was replaced by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252961/" target="_blank">Idris Elba</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000579/" target="_blank">Ron Perlman</a>, who has worked with del Toro on several occasions, was confirmed to have joined the cast on November 17, 2011. Industrial Light and Magic was chosen to do the visual effects for 'Pacific Rim'. Guillermo del Toro hired Oscar winners John Knoll and Hal T. Hickel, both known for their work on the 'Pirates of the Caribbean<i>'</i> films. Legacy Effects was hired to do the special and practical effects on the film. Shane Mahan, known for creating the armoured suits for <i>'</i>Iron Man' was hired on as effects supervisor. John Rosengrant was also brought in for his work on <i>'</i>Real Steel'. Oscar winner Clay Pinney, known for his work on <i>'</i>Independence Day' and 'Star Trek', was also brought on board. (Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Rim_%28film%29" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)<br />
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<b>Screenplay Structure:</b> Travis Beacham's 'Killing on Carnival Row' (<a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.com/2011/07/killing-on-carnival-row-script-review.html" target="_blank">Read my review</a>) was a fantastical ride into a bizarre and dangerous world. His words made this unique world come alive. Sadly, not much of this brilliance comes to play in this by-the-numbers script.<br />
But the screenplay follows a clear-cut structure, which I will demonstrate for the first half of the screenplay.<br />
In quick succesion we meet: 1. Raleigh, our male protagonist; 2. Mako, the female protagonist; and 3. Flick, the B-Story. After that, on page 9, comes 'The Catalyst' (Snyder) or 'Call to Adventure' (Vogler): Raleigh has to go to Tokyo and pair up with Mako to defend the city. <br />
In the 'Debate' Section, a question is posed. Not 'Will he do it?', but rather '<i>Can </i>they do it?' - for few pages the odd couple goes through a training montage, showing how they come closer and closer and finally can work together. The act break comes with the first Kaiju fight showing the audience the massive scale of the monsters coming out of the Pacific Rim. Exactly following Blake Snyders Beat Sheet the B-Story plays a prominent part now, before going into the 'Fun and Games' part: Raleigh and Mako have to complete a few simulated training missions, before - right in the middle of the script - the stakes are raised and the unlikely heroes have to go on their first real mission.<br />
This quick outline shows how the script follows every step in the screenplay book, although this doesn't guarantee a good movie.<br />
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<b>Outlook:</b> In an age of Mega-Spectacle-Movies like '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/" target="_blank">Battleship</a>', which bombed at the box-office (with $44 mill domestically in its second week for a €209mill budget) - movies need to offer something more. 'The Avengers' had wits and humour in addition to an stellar cast. Big explosions and splashy effects alone are not enough anymore. So, Guillermo del Toro will have to find a way to set his new effort apart from all the other disaster movies.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A very moving, fantastical short, that deserverdly won the Oscar 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The movie was sold as a fantasy flick, targeted at kids, but <b><i>this movie is not about Hugo</i></b>! The movie doesn't care about the goals of <i>Hugo </i>and resolves them only partially. It ignores the golden rule of character growth and additionally presents totally irrelevant minor characters with irrelevant sub plots. All the people, who expected an adventure movie, had to be disappointed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>From Wiki:<b> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2041147120">Robopocalypse</a></b></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse" target="_blank"> </a>is a New York Times best selling science fiction book<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"></sup> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_H._Wilson" target="_blank" title="Daniel H. Wilson">Daniel H. Wilson</a> published on June 8, 2011 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-06-26/hardcover-fiction/list.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>). The author has a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and many of the robots in the novel were inspired by real-world robotics research (<a href="http://io9.com/5807875/behind-the-fiction-the-science-of-robopocalypse" target="_blank">io9</a>). The </span>epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising is the next directing vehicle for Steven Spielberg (<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/steven-spielberg-commits-to-direct-robopocalypse/" target="_blank">Deadline</a>, see below). </div>
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At the end of the war, one of the heroes finds an archive containing the whole story of the start and course of the war against sentient robots. From this point the fight is told from many perspectives, each overlapping slightly, culminating in the fight against Archos, the master A.I.</div>
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Well, I liked the visual appeal in <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Robopocalypse</i></span><i> </i>and think this is what attracted Spielberg. The language is clear and precise, while the science fiction elements are believeable and frightening at the same time. Unfortunately, the characters are not as well balanced and thought-through.</div>
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But I have a little criticsm with how the story unfolds. Right at the beginning of <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Robopocalypse</i></span><i> </i>it is revealed that the war ended already and the complete story of the war is told in flashbacks. At the beginning the author/narrator pretends to only use the files found in this archive, but slowly drifts into the standard omniscient point of view. That's not that bad, but I find it hard to justifiy most of the perspectives from which the story is told. Their importance is told to us by the retrospective narrator and can't develop organically from the story. Some other perspectives feel very forced and unnecessary, especially the ones not in America, fighting against the Big Bad Robot. The retrospective view forced the reader to cencentrate on the how the story is told, not on the what is told, as we already know the result, which </div>
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Goddard and Spielberg should tell the story more straightforward, without the retrospective view and trim away the unnecessary story arcs. In concentrating on the thrilling story of the Resistance and War against the uprising robots the movie will become a visually-stunning, albeit emotionally-flat science fiction action movie. Perhaps Spielberg will find an emotional angle he can bring into the movie, which would be really good.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On October 22nd, 2011, Deadline reported that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/" target="_blank">Spielberg</a> (The Adventures of Tintin, Warhorse) plans to direct an adaptation of this book. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1206844/" target="_blank">Drew Goddard</a> (Cloverfield, LOST) has been hired to adapt <i>Robopocalypse</i> into screenplay. The prolific director has also hired designer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245596/" target="_blank">Guy Hendrix Dyas</a> (Inception) to work with him and his writers on creating the visual tone for the film and conceptualize its robotic elements. No actors have been cast yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The film, jointly financed by 20th Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks, will be released in North America by DreamWorks through Touchstone Pictures on July 3, 2013. Fox will handle the international distribution. Filming will start in January 2012 and take place entirely in Montreal, Canada </span><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/steven-spielberg-commits-to-direct-robopocalypse/" target="_blank">Deadline</a>).</span></div>
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Two month ago Google asked me to use <i>my mobile number</i> to verify my sign-in. To be honest, I did not want to give Google my mobile number, they have everything, don't they?! </div>
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So I waited, checked back everyday, hoping one day I could sign-in into my account. Silent protest, if you will. But now, I want to write again and I am not able to use my YouTube-Account - so I gave Google my mobile number... They won at last...</div>
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In Las Vegas: Michael Atlas (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251986/">Jesse Eisenberg</a>), Santayana, London Osborne (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000437/">Woody Harrelson</a>) and Alex Hero, forming The Four Horsemen, magically 'rob' a bank in france and give out the money to the audience. Also in attendance, Thaddeus Bradley (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/">Morgan Freeman</a>), a notorius exposer of magicians and their tricks. As it turns out, the bank was really robbed and so FBI agent Dylan Hobbes (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749263/">Mark Ruffalo</a>) - who is divorced, as we quickly learn - teams up with Alma Vargas (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491259/">Melanie Laurent</a>),
a Las Vegas Police Officer. The Four Horsemen plan to do two more shows in ten days
(<i>Ticking Time Bomb!</i>), so the officers bring in the four illusionists for interrogation, but of course can't prove anything. Bradley comes into the offices and offers his services, as Atlas was his student (<i>Emotional Angle</i>), but the FBI agents send him off. But as the time runs out and The Four Horseman are about to perform their second show, the agents ask Bradley back (<i>Bringing Together the Storylines</i>). He explains, that the robbery of the french bank was planned weeks in advanced and only through tricks it seemed like it was robbed as they were on the stage.<br />
Cut to New York: a disguised man breaks into the offices of Mr. Tressler, the manager of The Four Horseman. Soon after that, the disguised man enters the backstage area of the second show and is revealed to be Atlas. At the second show, they expose Mr. Tressler (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000323/">Michael Caine</a>), who is in the audience, as a fraud and then transfer money from his bank account to the account of every person in the hall. The Four Horseman promptly leave for Los Angeles, as the police can't pin anything on them again. It is then, that Bradley suggests, that there must be a Fifth Horseman, secretly working in the background. But as we see, only Atlas knows the identity of this mystery person. Finally doing a little bit of work, Hobbes and Vargas discover that Mr. Kessler had a safety deposit box in the french bank, that was robbed at the first show. They assume that this was the real target and find out that in that box was a blue print of the Federal Reserve Printing House right outside of LA. Shortly before the third, and final show starts, a masked Alex Hero is chased by the police chase after he tried to slip away from the hotel and dies in a horrible crash. But the tree remaining Horseman still want to continue..<br />
The show starts! Hobbes and Vargas stake out the Printing House and soon an unscheduled truck arrives and three man try to get into the building, as it turns out, the three were hypnotised and can't remember anything. Hobbes, Vargas and Bradley rush back to the show, just in time to see Atlas bringing Alex Hero 'back fom the dead'. Then they magically rob the Printing House and again distribute the money amongst the audience, Hobbes and Varga failed! <br />
<i>BEWARE, SPOILERS</i>: When Bradley returns home, he finds all of the money in his basement. Seconds later, the police storm his house and arrest him. He is quickly convicted as the Fifth Horseman, responsible for every crime, although he claim's he's innocent. Then Hobbes visits him in prison and reveals, that he, Hobbes, was in fact the Fifth Horseman and wanted to bring Bradley into prison for revealing the secrets of magicians.<br />
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<i>The Robin Hood Effect</i>: With their first act, the script establishes The Four Horsemen as modern Robin Hoods, in the time of economic collapse and depression, they rob a 'evil' bank and give the money out to the audience. Instantly, we like this. It shows the universal and time-less appeal of the Robin Hood legend. Adding to the fun is the special relationship between The Four Horsemen and the FBI: Yes, the magicians and illusionists are arrogant and full of themselves, but we want them to win (at the beginng, that is) and the interrogation scene played with this aspect masterfully.</div>
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<i>Bumpy Start</i>: The script throws a lot of characters in our direction on the first few pages and most of them only get a cookie cutter backstory. In fact, the whole 'briefing scene' oozes cliche! I know, the script cares more about action and thrill, so three-dimensional characters are not that important, but why then write so utterly over-used scenes (like Hobbes trying to re-connect to his ex-wife and his daughter)?</div>
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SPOILERS: <i>Puppet Master</i>: Approximatly in the middle of the script, the idea of the 'Fifth Horseman' is brough up, for one it raises the stakes (because it could be anyone of the team), but when Atlas explains, that the whole planning and project was his idea, it takes away from the team. Their integrity and position is endangered, when they are just following orders.<br />
SPOILERS: <i>About that End</i>: So, Hobbes planned three shows, performed an impossible break-in, just to bring Hobbes into prison. That seems kind of like over-doing it. To be honest, it robs all the shows, the whole Robin-Hood-thingy of it's meaning and turns it into a petty, kindergarden-fight. Oh yeah, did I mention, that Hobbes is a member of a secret society, sworn to protect the secrets of magicians? I am not kidding!<br />
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This version of the script was written by <b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945026/">Boaz Yakin</a> </b>(<i>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time</i>) and <b>Edward Ricourt<span style="font-weight: normal;">. For the final film </span></b><b>Josh Applebaum</b>, <b>Andre Nemec</b> (<i>Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol</i>) and <b>Ed Solomon<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> revised the script. (Source: <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/now-me-sales-art-info-louis-leterriers-magic-heist-movie-poised/">/Film</a>)<br />
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<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-28654696052736950222011-10-25T19:53:00.000+02:002012-06-13T10:44:23.215+02:00Akira (Remake) - Script Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<u>The Verdict</u>:</div>
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Condensing and remaking the story only leaves us with a highly visual movie, without an engaging plot or interesting characters to care for.</div>
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<u>What's it about?</u></div>
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A young biker gang member gains uncontrollable psychic power and has to be stopped by his friends and the army. </div>
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<u>Plot Summary</u>:</div>
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Teaser: An explosions shatters Manhatten, in the crater stands a boy. Colonol Shackleton orders to put <i>Subject 28</i> and the others into cryo-stasis. </div>
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A text informs us, that Manhattan was sold to Japan, as the US hits a deep recession, following the total destruction of New York. </div>
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Meet <i>Travis</i>, orphaned, 11, on his first day of school: He gets bullied and befriends <i>Kaneda</i>, 14, who protects him.</div>
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10 years later, <i>New Tokyo</i> has risen on Manhatten. We meet the two again at a Bar, they established a biker gang (the Red devils); After a reckless Stunt, injuring his girlfriend Kaori, Travis goes to a 'mobile rehab van' by <i>Vanguard</i>, as he fears he will do drugs again. He has to wear an electronic band, but is promised to stay clean.</div>
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Soon after, Travis, while attacking a rival gang member, runs into Thomas, a little boy looking like an old man and is badly hurt. This strange child is escorted by Kay, who is arrested together with Kaneda, while Thomas is brought into a care facility by Shackleton. Kay and Kaneda are released, while Travis is in a hospital, completely healed already. He escapes, before Shackleton, who is informed that Travis' blood contains the mysterious Compound-A, arrives to get him. But later he gets him, when Travis is hidden away by Kaneda and Kay. So the group breaks into the facility to rescue Travis, who slowly discovers his unimaginable powers rips apart the whole facility. Only three other test subjects can stop him, but not kill him. Finally Shackleton finds out, that the 'mobile rehab' project injected Travis with the Compound, in order to restore America to it's old glory, but decides not to do anything about and continues hunting down Travis. </div>
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Travis reaches the Crater, trying to free <i>Akira</i>, aka Subject 28, who was responsible for the first explosion. Kaneda, Kay and Shackleton try everything in their power to stop him, attacking him with tanks, lasers, solar beams, but only hurt Travis. But when he sees his girlfriend getting killed by bullet, meant for him, Travis goes totally insane and explodes. Shackleton, Kaneda and Kay can escape on board a helicopter in the last second and see New Tokyo falling to ashes. </div>
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Final Image: Akira awakens, steps out of his Cyro-Chamber and Travis bows down before him...</div>
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<u>Observations</u>:</div>
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First off, of all the script I ever read, this was the most exhausting one. Walls of text littered over the pages, describing the action in so many details, it was like reading a novel. </div>
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The visual detail and ideas were astonishing. Whitta develops an interesting American-Japanese Hybrid-Culture, painting the co-existence of extreme poverty and wealth in grand pictures.</div>
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I don't like it, when the story is just happening to the characters, without them ever taking charge or making their own decisions. Unfortunately, it was like this in this script: Travis gets injected with Compound-A, gains uncontrollable power and runs amok. He isn't the active protagonist once throughout the whole script. I feel cheated and - to be honest - bored, when this happens. </div>
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The emotional angle was heavily underplayed, in my opinion. The friendship between Travis and Kaneda should come to a fulminant finale, but it fell flat. The script spends too much time with military personnel and the mythology, but forgot the characters at the heart of the story.</div>
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<u>Differences to the 1988 Movie</u>:</div>
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Names: Tetsuo = Travis; Takashi = Thomas; Kei = Kay; Shikishima = Shackleton; and so on...</div>
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The script adds a little bit of background to Akira's first explosion, explaining why New Tokyo is build on americal soil, but adds nothing significant new or exciting to the story. </div>
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The most radical change concerns the ending: Planned as the first part of a larger series (possibly a trilogy...) the movie ends shortly after Akira awakens and leaves most plot points hanging.</div>
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<u>The Project:</u></div>
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The script is based on the Manga by Katsuhiro Otomo from the year 1982. A hugely popular anime version of that movie was released in 1988. Shortly after that Warner Brothers bought the live-action rights, but nothing happened for the next 20 years. In 2008, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> was set to produce a live-action adaptation with this script. In February 2010 the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400436/">Hughes Brothers</a> (From Hell) took over the Director's chair, but left it again in May 2011.<br />
The following month <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429471/">Jaume Collet-Serra</a> (of 'Unknown') was announced as the new director, with the hopes to realize this movie with the modest budget of 90 million dollars. (Source: <a href="http://www.filmjunk.com/2011/10/20/akira-remake-is-officially-happening-garrett-hedlund-to-star/">FilmJunk</a>)</div>
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The biggest concern of the studio is to find a suitable actor: many stars were offered the role, namely <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330687/">Joseph Gordon-Levitt</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290556/">James Franco</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1374980/">Zac Efron</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1940449/">Andrew Garfield</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564215/">James McAvoy</a> or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1055413/">Michael Fassbender</a>, but nobody has signed up so far. Apparently the strongest contender for the role of Kaneda is <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1330560/">Garrett Hedlund</a></i>, the lead of Tron:Legacy. (Source: <a href="http://www.movieline.com/2011/10/live-action-akira-green-lit-garrett-hedlund-rumored-front-runner.php">Movie|Line</a>)</div>
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000198/">Gary Oldman</a> is in talks to play Colonel Shackleton, while <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000307/">Helena Bonham-Carter</a> is wanted to play Lady Miyako, another test subject and only a small role. (Source: <a href="http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/10/breaking-gary-oldman-and-helena-bonham-carter-offered-akira.php">TwitchFilm</a>)</div>
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<u>The Verdict:</u></div>
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The <b>Non-Stop-Action</b> of this Sci-Fi<b> time-loop-movie</b> leaves no room for character development or relationships in favor of huge action scenes, which are entertaining nonetheless. </div>
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<u>What's it about?</u></div>
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An unskilled, new recruit dies in his first battle, but awakens one day prior to the battle, myteriously stuck in a temporal loop. He uses these repeats to master the art of killing and tries to win the battle and escape the loop.</div>
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<u>Plot Summary [<b>SPOILERS</b>]:</u></div>
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The script starts with Cage jumping out of a burning Dropship into the 'Battle of Ruby Tuesday': Thousands of human soldiers fighting the insectoid Mimic. In this bloody and messy battle we meet Yonaburu, Cage's best friends, Rita, the best fighter in the world (and the female love interest). Cage's first instinct is to desert, which gets Yonaburu and him killed already on page 13. </div>
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Loop 2: Cage re-awakens in the barracks, a day before the fight and can remember all of that happening before. Again, he drops into the Battle of Ruby Tuesday, this time dying, while trying to save Yonaburu.</div>
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Loop 3: Cage awakens again. This time he tries to flee, escaping to a near-by beach, where he is found by some scout Mimics and gets killed</div>
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Loop 4: Cage is desperate. Trying to break out of this never-ending nightmare, he kills himself.</div>
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Loop 5: Cage realises, that there is no way out of this loop. Now he starts questioning the senior offices, gathers information, in order to save some of his friends, but still - he dies.</div>
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In a quick training montage, cutting between Cage and his superior office sparring and one Battle of Ruby Tuesday after the other.</div>
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Loop 93: The training shows it's impact, Cage survives longer and longer with each try. </div>
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Loop 187 & 203: Cage uses his knowledge of all his repeats to get an Battle Axe and with it he can kill the Mimic mother insect, but still dies exactly at 4:19.Cage loses all hope of ever winning the battle or escaping the loop, until Rita asks him: "How many loops is this for you?", shortly before he dies again.</div>
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Loop 329: Now the focus of the script shifts shortly, showing us Rita awaking in her bed. Cage finds her and answers her question from the last loop. She explains, that she was stuck in a loop, too. The Mimic have Antenna & Receiver Mimics, which can send signals back in time to warn their fellow mimics, Rita was and Cage is caught up in this signal, so he has to kill it, to be free and win the battle. Cage & Rita kill the Antenna Mimic and all Receivers, but, still, he loops back to the beginning.</div>
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Loop 393: Cage & Rita fall in love anew every day, and on the last pages of the script they have something like a relationship in fast-forward. But in this loop the Mimic attack the base, again Cage and Rita kill the Antenna and Receiver Mimic. Then Rita reveals, that she must be another receiver, and kills herself: Cage is finally free and wins the battle.</div>
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Two formal things that bugged me: The script uses many noises, like <i>Shup! Twamp!</i> do describe the action going on. I am not sure, if I like this, but it reads very weird. Aside from that half of the words are CAPITAL, it feels like they are screaming at me. Not pleasant.</div>
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Back to the artistic choices, the script presents: The writing is dense and spot-on, as it is always focused on the action. </div>
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Something strange happens on page 39: Suddenly we have a Voice Over by the main protagonist, explaining all the background information in a huge dump for 5 pages. After that the Voice Over is used quite regularly, but it seem to appear out of no-where.</div>
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<i>Shallow Relationships</i>: Cage is stuck in a battle zone, always fighting and dying. This leaves not much room for a romance, so it feels kinda forced, when he suddenly has a full-on relationship with Rita (10 pages before the end, of all places, just to make us feel sad when she dies 2 pages later. </div>
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<i>Generic Alien of the Week</i>: The idea of aliens sending messages back in time to win battles is really neat, but other than that the Mimic are as bland and uninspiring as they come. Their aggressive behaviour, for example, isn't explained or discussed.</div>
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<i>The Solution</i>: I really hoped, that the solution to winning the battle and escaping the loop is surprising and refreshing, but, alas, it is fighting harder and killing more Mimic than before. It feels like a wasted chance. Afterall the script is trapped in the same militaristic view as the <a href="http://v/">Ender's Game</a> script I reviewed. The bland enemy reduces the action to routine killings, as we have in ego-shooters, as the reader has no emotional investment in the fights. As such, it feels a lot like the <a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.com/2011/08/halo-script-review.html">Halo Script</a>, which also had non-stop action without an emotional core. </div>
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<u>The Project:</u></div>
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Warner Brothers bought the spec script for a low-seven figure from Dante Harper (<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/warners-makes-7-figure-spec-deal-for-japanese-novel-all-you-need-is-kill/">Deadline: Hollywood</a>), shortly after that, Doug Liman was slated to direct the movie for a 2012 release ( <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023208?refCatId=13">Variety</a>). The spec is based on the 2004 novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill">Wikipedia</a>). </div>
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As the hunt for the lead actor has started, two names have been popping up: First Warner Brothers offered the project to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/">Brad Pitt</a> (<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/brad_pitt_offer_all_you_need_i.html">Vulture</a>). To be honest I can't see him doing such a mindless popcorn flick, on the other hand is was revealed, that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/">Tom Cruise</a> is in talks to take over the lead (<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-tom-cruise-still-matters-245261">THR</a>). Cage is described as being 20, so both actors would be too old to take over that role, most probably there were changes made to the script to accomodate this.</div>
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Warner Brothers wants to get a huge star, as the movie will cost them about 150$ and to get the money back WB wants a big name attached to the posters.</div>
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<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-51063768466954179112011-10-02T21:20:00.000+02:002012-06-13T10:44:48.998+02:00Silver Surfer - Script Review<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post based on the script 'Silver Surfer' by John Turman.</span></i></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: small;">The Verdict:</span></u></div>
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On-the-nose writing and a far too alien superhero weigh this script down, although it has many good ideas.</div>
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<u>What's it about?</u></div>
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Silver Surfer comes to Earth as the herald for the planet-eating alien Galactus. But with human contact, the Silver Surfer learns about compassion, friendship and love, all the while a philandering, alien-sceptic SETI worker and a blind woman have to find a way to stop Galactus.</div>
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<u>Observations:</u></div>
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<b>1. </b><i>The Writing is so 'in your face' </i>sometimes, like this (p. 39):</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">She looks transcendent in her compassion. Ray's in love, he just doesn't know it yet.</span></div>
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This is the end of the interrogation scene between Ray and Alicia, but instead of showing his beginng love to us, the script just says Ray's in love, which is kind of lazy.</div>
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<b>2. </b><i>The Structure of the movie was really off</i>: The Set-Up and whole first act took ages, it is only on<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> p. 66</span> that both protagonists define their goal of the movie:</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">RAY</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">And save the world?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">ALICIA</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">Why not? Someone's got to.</span></div>
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<b>3. </b><i>Two unbalanced main characters</i>: The logline says it all. Silver Surfer comes to Earth and goes on a sight-seeing tour, he is stunned by the human's capability to love and feel and frightened that so many of them choose to be evil. On the other hand are Ray and Alicia, who desperately try to save Silver Surfer from the army (which he can do own his own, by the way) and finally stopping Galactus from eating Earth. But they didn't need the help of the Silver Surfer to stop doom. Ray figured out Galactus' interest in music, it was nothing Silver Surfer learned on Earth, or something Ray from Silver Surfer.<br />
Unfortunately this plays out like an alien invasion script with a silver guy surfing through it.<br />
I understand the problem, Silver Surfer, or Norrin-Rad, is too alien for the typical superhero movie. His backstory doesn't play on Earth, so it is really hard to find a concept that makes him relatable. Regrettably, this script makes him far too removed from the protagonists.</div>
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<u><span style="font-size: small;">The Project: </span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A long list of people where attached to the adaptation of Silver Surfer over the years. Starting with Bernd Eichinger and George Lucas, then Quentin Tarantino. Many screenwriters like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420135/">Richard Jefferies</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301352/">Rudy Gaines</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0723468/">John Rice</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001825/">Andrew Kevin Walker</a> (Se7en, Sleepy Hollow), <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668309/">Don Payne</a> (Thor, Fantastic Four 2), </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833089/">J. Michael Straczynski</a> (Babylon 5) tried their hands at the script over the last two decades, but after the box office failure of Fantastic Four 2 it doesn't seem too likely, that there will ever be a Silver Surfer movie on the silver screen.<br />
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Welcome back to Part 2 of
my <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Script
to Movie’</i></b> Feature of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hanna</i></b>. </div>
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In the<a href="http://insight-movies.blogspot.com/2011/09/hanna-script-to-movie-part-1.html"> first post</a>, I analyzed the Black List Script of 2006. In today’s post I will
analyze the structure of the movie and afterwards compare that to the script. Like in the first post I will use <a href="http://www.blakesnyder.com/">Black Snyder</a>'s Beat Sheet as described in Save the Cat!</div>
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<u>First Image</u>: </div>
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Hanna hunting a dear in the
lonely nature of Sweden.
Key dialogue: “I just missed your heart.” </div>
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<u>Theme stated</u>:</div>
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Eric: “We have all we need
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Hanna: “It’s not enough.
I’m ready.”</div>
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= Hanna wants more,
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<u>Set-Up</u>:</div>
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Scenes in the cabin show us
the ‘family life’ of Eric and Hanna. We see pictures of her mother Johanna. Then,
next morning, fight training, memorizing information and shooting exercises. This set-up is very short, as we don't need very much information and more will be reveal</div>
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<u>Catalyst</u>:</div>
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Eric digs up a transmitter
and gives Hanna the choice to activate it. Warning her if Marissa Wiegler ever
found her, “<i><b>she won’t stop until Hanna’s dead. Or she is</b>.</i>” = In this short sentence right at the beginning of the movie, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Goal</b> was shown very clearly!</div>
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<u>Debate</u>:</div>
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Eric: “Laika had always
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Hanna: “But she didn’t, did
she”</div>
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= her need for a happy end,</div>
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Hanna: “But sometimes I
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= she will make her own
happy ending (without his ‘story’)</div>
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Hanna wanders through the
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<u>Break into Two </u></div>
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Minute 13: Hanna activates the
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<u>Fun and Games</u>:</div>
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Eric: “Tell me again.”</div>
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Hanna: “Marissa Wiegler.”</div>
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Eric: “Then?”</div>
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Hanna: “Postcard.”</div>
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Eric: “Then? The address
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With this dialogue the very
long Fun & Games section starts. The viewer is informed about the plan and
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Eric leaves the cabin,
before the agents arrive and Hanna stays to get arrested. In the prison cell,
she brutally kills a Marissa double, a psychiatrist and some guards, and then
escapes into the desert
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<u>B-Story</u>:</div>
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Throughout the Fun &
Games part, an English family helps Hanna out. Hanna befriends their teenage
daughter, Sophie, and gets a look into a “normal family”. She smuggles herself
on the RV, arriving in Spain.
Hanna spends a normal night, hangs out with a boy and finds a good friend in
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<u>Midpoint</u> & <u>Bad
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Minute 43: Marissa orders a
Hitman to kill Hanna. The stakes are raised as he follows her trail, capturing
and killing the hotel owner. Afterwards he follows Hanna to Spain, where she kisses Sophie, which is the mid-point of her personal evolution (and of the B-Story). The stakes are raised as Hanna now feels compassion and has something to fight for, while we know she is followed by ruthless killers. </div>
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At Minute 60: Marissa kills
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<u>All is lost</u>:</div>
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The moment is two-fold:
first Hanna finds out the truth about her origins, why she was born, why
Marissa Wiegler is hunting her. Afterwards, Eric, Hanna’s father, gets killed
by Marissa. It’s the Whiff of Death: Now Hanna is on her own and she can’t hear
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This is the bleakest moment
of the movie. Hanna just lost her father, so she returns to Mr. Grimm, a friend
of her fathers, only to find him dead, too. </div>
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<u>Break into Three</u>:</div>
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Minute 97: Marissa scares
Hanna, staring through the window, calling her out. Hanna turns and takes a
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<u>Finale</u>:</div>
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The last act takes place in
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A great scene showing the brutal and ruthless fight between them. </div>
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<u>Final Image</u>:</div>
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Hanna stands over the
wounded Marissa, lifting her gun and in a great throw-back to the beginning
utters the words: “I just missed your heart”, and shoots Marissa. She is grown
up now, freed from the evil ghost of her past and open to live a normal life.</div>
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<u>Changes</u>:</div>
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- A clearly stated goal and
plan: The viewer knows Hanna’s and Eric’s plans and can anticipate their
actions and feel with them. The fact that Hanna only killed a Marissa double
uses this knowledge to create even more suspense. They don’t know Marissa is
alive and hunting them, while Hanna feels safe and secure. </div>
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- That goes together with Hanna
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- Marissa is not Hanna’s
mother anymore. She hunts Hanna, because she is part of a secret genetic
experiment Marissa closed years ago. This way every viewer can understand the
motivation of Hanna to kill Marissa and feel with her on the way.</div>
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- Eric seems more empathic
towards his daughter. In the script he was distant and cold, even menacing at
the end. In the movie he tries to protect her, sheltering her from evil.</div>
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- Hanna is totally
overwhelmed in the hotel: TV blaring, Telephone ringing, cars honking and so
on… That’s something she isn’t used to. In the script she turned into a
sweets-eating TV-Junkie and didn’t want to do anything else for the middle
part.</div>
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- One little thing bothers
me still: The B-Plot is left hanging, as Hanna doesn’t visit her new friend. In
the script this showed the change, the transformation better and is only hinted
at in the movies.<br />
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<u>Verdict:</u><br />
As you may recall, I did not like the script. I found the character motivation to be lacking and confusingg, which really hurt the overall script. But the movie only kept the most basic elements and expanded on them, enriched and thus created a totally, different movie.<br />
Did I like it?<br />
<i><b>I loved it</b><b>! </b></i>It is the perfect example for a highly stylized action movie with an intelligent plot. </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Today I’ll be starting a new feature: In a first
post I will read a script and analysis just as usual, but I’ll follow that up
by a second post comparing the script to the final film. I’ll be writing about the
structure (using Blake Synder's Beat Sheet) and discuss the changes made to the story </span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">The Verdict</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">I adore the clear and precise language, but the
plot falls very flat, because the characters have no motivation or depth at all. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><u>What’s it about</u>:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">A teenage girl, trained by her father to be the
perfect killing machine, has to travel across Europe
in order to make it home again.</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">First Image</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">FADE IN:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">EXT. FOREST - SWEDEN -- DAY</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">[...]</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">Hanna (14) glides through the
trees, a bow strapped to her shoulders. Her camouflage causes her to fade in
and out of the background. She floats through the trees as if she were a ghost.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">[...] </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Set-Up</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">: </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">After the introduction to Hanna, the script cuts
to Marissa, a stone cold secret service agent, who picks up a signal in Sweden and
sends some men to capture Eric and Hanna. The next few scenes shows the “normal
life” of Hanna: training, hunting, fighting until ---</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Catalyst</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">: </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">-- O'Reilly arrives at their cabin, capturing
Eric and Hanna. Both escape from their confinement, but were hold in separate prisons. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Read Act Two and Three after the break:</i></span></b></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Break into Two</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">: </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna finds herself in Turkey, fleeing
from the guards, that are close behind her, with the help of a French family
picking her up in the middle of the desert. They bring her to the hotel, they
are staying at and there Hanna lives the life, she never had. </span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">B-Story (+Debate, perhaps?)</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna gets comfortable. She befriends the couple,
which owns the hotel and the French girl in her age. The couple even offers
Hanna to stay with them, but, alas, that would be a different kind of movie. In
order to give her reason NOT to stay, a mean loan shark appears, threatens the
hotel owners and is killed by Hanna. Hanna is dropped off at the train station
before Marissa brutally kills the hotel owner and his pregnant wife. In the
meantime returned Eric returned to the cabin in the woods, waiting for Hanna.</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Midpoint</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna arrives in Istanbul and finds the embassy, which she is
supposed to go to. The Ambassador helps her getting a passport and she takes
the next bus to Sofia.</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Bad Guys Close In</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">At the next station of her travel, Hanna is not
able to afford the bus fare. Suddenly two of Marissa’s agents jump in and pay
for her, as they were ordered to bring Hanna back to Sweden.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">All Is Lost / Dark Night of
the Soul</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna arrives at the cabin, but her father,
fatally wounded, orders her to turn herself in. Hanna doesn’t understand, but
has no more time as Eric burns down the cabin with him still in it. </span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Break Into Three</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna is captured and brought to Marissa. In the
van the little girl can overpower her guards and wreak havoc on the whole
office, until –</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Finale</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">-- Marissa and Hanna finally confront each
other. In one last deadly fight, Hanna can kill her mother Marissa. </span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Final Image</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Hanna visits the French girl, now a free and normal
teenage girl:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">Hanna and Thea stare at each other for a long moment. Rain
begins to fall.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">All is right in the world and it’s going to be a nice
day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">The End</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">What did work</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Lochhead has a great style of writing; he
conjures up precise images and can fill them with emotions. I was really
shocked about the horrible death of the pregnant woman and his other flashes of
intense violence. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">What didn’t I like</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">My biggest complain about ‘Hanna’ would be the
lacking motivation for the main character. Hanna gets captured at each Act
Break, not acting on her own will. The main problem might be that she has no
goal. Something should have been stated at the beginning. As such she just
reacts to the things Marissa and her men do. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">The whole back-story was left fuzzy and did not deliver
enough empathy with the characters, nor gave us any explanation for the actions
of Marissa. ‘So why should Hanna kill Marissa’, I asked myself throughout the
script. On the last page, Hanna explains herself:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 27.0pt; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">HANNA</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 54.0pt; margin-right: 57.6pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New";">My father told me about her <i>[Marissa, her mother]</i>. He
would tell me stories about her. I decided I didn’t like her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">The next post, coming up in a few days, will compare the script to the
final movie and I am surprised how different both are. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">So, see you next time!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">- Tristan</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><u>The Verdict</u>: <b>One of the best-written scripts</b> I read, it offers a <b>special-effects heavy update</b> to the timeless classic, while being<b> less subtle</b> than Truffaut's film version.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u>What’s it about</u>?</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books
begins to question his task. (Source: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/">IMDb</a>)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u>Plot Summary [SPOILERS]</u>:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The first scene introduces us to the Fire Brigade:
lead by Montag and Captain Beatty they search a house and soon find books,
which is a major crime in this future. Relentlessly they burn the books and the
house and arrest the family. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We follow Montag on his way back home, when he meets
Clarisse, the nine-year old neighbors’ girl, they talk and befriend each other.
Back at home, Montag finds his wife, Millie passed out from an overdose of
levelers. Medics come and resuscitate her, although the next morning she doesn’t
remember a thing and doesn’t even want to talk about her apparent suicide
attempt. Millie only wants to watch her interactive soap opera.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Back at the station, Captain Beatty tells Montag that
soon he will be Captain of the Fire Brigade, before they leave for another
emergency. They arrive at an old Victorian house and find thousand of books
stashed away in the walls. The owner of the books, an old woman, chooses to die
with her books and sets them on fire herself. Montag is shocked by the death of
the woman: he can’t understand why would someone choose to die for something
illegal? In the aftermath of her death, Montag finds two books and takes them.
On his way back home he gets paranoid and gets into trouble with the police,
but Clarisse helps him out. He confides in her about the books and gives her
one of the books. At home he starts reading, but the next morning his wife
finds the book and gets really furious at Montag. As he can’t convince her to
keep quiet about it and help him, Montag takes the book back to the Fire
Brigade and burn it. But too late! Montag has entered a new world and doesn’t
want to leave. He starts stealing books on every deployment and stashes them at
home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One night Montag wakes up and sees Clarisse’s house
being burned down. Someone found the book he gave to her. Now, Clarisse and her
parents are on the run and of course Montag feels guilty for this. He seeks out
Clarisse’s uncle, Faber, who was known for being a rebel a long time ago. With
Montag being a Fire Officer, he doesn’t want to talk with Montag, but he forces
Faber to take the books he salvaged and stashed away. A fragile bond forms
between those two men. Montag has changed, his love for books, changed his way
of looking at his job. At the next deployment the crew arrives at Montag’s
home: Millie turned him in and now Captain Beatty forces Montag to burn down
his own home. Beatty also knows about Faber and in an act of sheer hate, Montag
kills Captain Beatty with his flamethrower. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He can warn Faber to flee before the police arrive and
the two men, now most wanted criminals, meet at an old abandoned warehouse.
Soon the police have them surrounded and a heavy siege starts, Montag can flee,
but Faber dies in the hail of bullets. The police is so desperate to find
Montag as fast as possible, because the whole world is watching them via live
TV, that they stage his death and kill some random homeless man.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Montag is free! He follows the river, just as Faber
told him, and finds a group of people living in the mountains, outcasts just
like him. There he find Clarisse and her parents among those people, who
memorize books to save them from being destroyed. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While they travel further away from the city, the city gets nuked and totally destroyed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u>Observations</u>:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>The Dilemma</i>: What I really liked about the script was the chouice presented to Montag. His future at the Fire Brigade looks really bright, he has a nice home, but still something keeps nagging at him. The decision to take that book and read for the first time, has so much weight, it such a profound moment with consequences Montag couldn't have imagined. But it is his decision to take that book! The characters grows immensely in this moment, because he isn't thrown into the world of the second act, but decides to take that step himself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u>The Project</u>:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 1966 Truffaut filmed a adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The plans for a remake started in 1997 with Mel Gibson wanting to produce, star and/or direct the new adaptation/remake. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt were rumored to play the lead role. In 2001 Frank Darabont revived the project (this his script!) with Tom Hanks in the lead role. In 2008 Hanks left the project and since then nothing new happened. If this will ever get made depends on finding a star for the lead role of Guy Montag. (Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Plans_for_second_film">Wikipedia</a>)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So, as always I encourage you to comment on my post, just choose 'Post as Anonymous', if you don't want to register first. Looking forward to your critism...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Have a nice day,</span></div>
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<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-19191052442909735752011-09-02T07:00:00.000+02:002011-11-09T08:57:45.330+01:00TOTEM - A Short Script by Tristan Mahlow<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally I can post one of my own short scripts. I worked on this since February 2011, since I read Freud's <i>TOTEM AND TABOO</i>, which directly inspired me to write this short. I wrote several drafts, now the project is ready for the public. I am looking forward to your comments, please write your critique down below in the comments section.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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I proudly present to you:</div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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</div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">TOTEM</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">by TRISTAN MAHLOW</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">FADE IN:</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="A0mO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. FOREST - DAY - FOGGY</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="A0mO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wafting, grey fog between grey trees, like all the colours washed out of this bleak world.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">A wolf's cry cuts through the errie silence.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">UlARU, 16, emerges out of the grey mass. He only wears a loin cloth, revealing his scrawny body. On his back he wears a reed basket. Ularu is looking for something --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- and suddenly his eyes grow very big: Far up in a tree: A SHINING RED APPLE! </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu grabs the lowest branch and begins his climb. He pants and sweats when he reaches the apple. The boy picks the shiny apple like the most wonderful treasure and puts it in his basket.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="sqmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. THE VILLAGE - DAY - FOGGY</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="sqmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu runs back to his village, the few tents flocked together on a meadow, still glowing from his find. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">More tribesmen, young and old - and all of them as scrawny as Ularu - have returned with baskets and are now emptying them in front of the biggest tent. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their baskets are nearly empty and only a few roots and nuts come out of them. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu takes a look into his basket. It is still there: the apple glows in the dark of his basket. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu sighs and then comes to a decision: He takes out the apple and dissappears behind one of the tents, leaving behind his basket.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="EMmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. A POND IN THE FOREST - DAY - FOGGY</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="EMmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The red apple pressed close to his body, Ularu runs to ALKINA, the most beautiful girl of his village. 16 and very innocent, she sits in front of a pond, washing clothes.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">She jumps up, when Ularu reaches her. They both stare at each other for a moment: Alkina unsure what he wants, Ularu unsure what to do. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without a word and in a very sudden movement Ularu extends his arm. Alkina is startled and steps back. Then Ularu opens his hand and shows her the marvellous fruit. Her eyes open with amazment, she can not believe it! </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">She reaches out to take it --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- and a bony, wrinkled hand grabs the wrist of Ularu and the apple falls into the pond. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">KONOL, the old shaman of the village towers over Ularu. In his gaze burns anger. Without letting go of Ularu's wrist Konol fishes for the fruit. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">He catches the apple and then examines it for a little while. Konol turns, and draging Ularu along, the shaman returns to the center of the village.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="5fmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. THE VILLAGE - DAY - FOGGY</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="5fmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Konol stops in the middle of the huts. He carefully places the apple down on the ground and starts rocking forth and back. The villagers gather around, wondering and staring at the old shaman.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sage starts humming, getting louder and louder, chanting, breathing heavily, until --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- THE GROUND RIPS OPEN, swallowing the apple. Ularu screams: his apple! Lost! </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">A low rumble starts beneath the crowd of people, they look terrified. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- a tree grows, where the apple was: more like a full grown tree being pushed out of the ground. The tree is in full blossom and illuminates everything around it. The native people stare at the wonder happening in front of them. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- out of the massive trunk a figure appears: the TOTEM. A muscular men; his face has the astute traits of a wolf and his sheer strength radiates around him.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The tribesmen take a step back out of respect, some even bow down. With one movement of the Totem's hand, the fog disappears, with a wave of the other hand the dead forest, sourrounding the village, returns back to life, bearing food in abundance. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu looks at his own hands: why doesn't he have such powers?</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">His eyes, now mere slits, look at the Totem with envy and anger. The Totem looks at the crowd before him, then singles out Ularu. Both share an intense look.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Totem raises his hand once again and --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- points at Ularu!</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The whole village turns and looks at the shocked boy. The Totem moves his hands: "Follow me!" and disappears into the forest.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The boy regains his composure and follows him --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- Ularu doesn't see the worried eyes of Alkina behind his back.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="3ymO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. FOREST - DAY</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="3ymO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Totem wanders through the forest. Under his step, plants grow, blossom and die again. Ularu always behind him.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Totem stops and turns around: he looks at Ularu. There is anger in his face. Before the Totem can do anything, Ularu jumps at him.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">THEY FIGHT!</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ularu fights with a desperate strength, while the muscular and build Totem moves elegantly, avoiding Ularu's attacks.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only the BLOODLUST in Ularu's eyes frighten the TOTEM and when the scrawny boy manages to put his meager hands around the throat of the Totem --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- the demi-god resign. He just stops, looking at the rising moon above him. He could kill Ularu in an instant, but choose not to do so. The Totem's eyes are turned to sky, expecting something and Ularu presses harder and harder until the Totem falls to the ground --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="gMmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. THE VILLAGE - SUNSET</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="gMmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- The shaman, sits inbetween the villagers under their new shining tree. Suddenly: the TREE BURSTS INTO FLAMES. Ashes rain down on the people and Konol screams on the top of his lungs --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="K5mO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. FOREST - SUNSET</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="K5mO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- Ularu cowers over the corpse of the Totem, his mouth is covered in blood. There is a deep wound in the chest of Totem where is heart used to be. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then the TRANSFORMATION begins: Ularu grows bigger, muscles grow everywhere and his face adopts the traits of a wolf. He is not the scrawny kid anymore, now he has a frightening presence and his eyes radiate hate and determination. </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The new Totem runs off into the deep forest. The distant cry of a wolf can be heard under the bloodred moon.</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUT TO:</span></div><div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="sceneheading" id="tdmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">EXT. A POND IN THE FOREST - SUNRISE</span></div><div class="sceneheading" id="tdmO1000" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alkina goes to the pond, morning mist around her feet. She sits down (where she once sat with a boy named Ularu) and stares down into the water. She freezes: --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- is there a face in the water? With her face closer to the surface she can see: the new Totem! </span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alkina jumps back in fear. Just below the water surface Ularus' face looks back at her, his eyes glimmer. He stretches out his hand (lacking the apple this time) and offers it to Alkina. She hesitates, then --</span></div><div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="action" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- extends her arm, too. The two hands meet on the still water surface and behind Alkina the whole forest goes up in flames. Red, glimmering ash fills the air, as Ularu pulls down Alkina into his darkness.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span> <div class="transition" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">FADE TO BLACK</span></div><pre> </pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343293097882653621.post-17653602446828858042011-08-29T12:03:00.000+02:002012-06-13T10:49:36.688+02:0020,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Remake) - Script Review<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Post based on the remake script '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' by Craig Titley, July 2007, second draft. This is not the final film version!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The script is a very entertaining, action-packed throw-back to the good ol’ adventure movies, with lacking characterization of the main protagonists and an unclear enemy force. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What's it about?</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ned Land is taken aboard the Nautilus and helps Captain Nemo retrieve the keys to an ancient civilization, which holds priceless treasures and the most dangerous weapon of the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Plot Summary [<b>SPOILERS</b>]:</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">India, 1857</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: Prince Dakkar tells his son about the wonderful mysteries of life, while his beautiful wife watches over them. Later that night the British general Anson will kill all three of them in cold blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">10 years later</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: Rumors of a giant monster frightens the west. Under the lead of Commander Farragut an expedition is send out by the Royal Navy to kill the beast. The Commander forces <i>Ned Land</i>, the world-best harpooner, to join his forces or rot in prison for the rest of his life. <i>Julie Fleischer</i>, the only woman with more than one line in this script – and of course the love interest – smuggles herself aboard the ship, in the trunks of the marine life expert <i>Professor Annorex</i>, because her father was killed in the last attack by this monster. The ship sails to the last attack site of the beast and is promptly attacked by it. It turns out to be a huge iron submersible called <i>Nautilus</i>. The only survivors, Ned, Julie and the Professor, are taken aboard by <i>Captain Nemo</i> and stay there for weeks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nemo stole a map from Julie’s father, who was an archeologist, and tries to find a treasure in a Sumerian temple. While Nemo retrieves 6 ancient keys, Ned and Julie try to flee, but are attacked by Ottomans and have to return to the Nautilus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Captain Nemo takes the ship back to it’s base, an old volcanic island in the middle of the ocean. Nemo reveals that he funded the work of Julie’s father all these years and was a good friend of him. Now he tries to finish his work of finding an ancient, highly-developed culture, but he has to find a missing 7<sup>th</sup> key. Coincidentally, Julie has the map of this key memorized and can lead Nemo there. But not before Ned and Julie make out for a bit…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The last key is hidden in the <i>Antarctic ice</i> and soon after Nemo, Ned, Julie and the Professor arrive there, they are attacked by General Anson, who wants the power of this ancient civilization to himself. The wounded Professor is left behind and now helps General Anson to stop Nemo. But he already has found the last key and takes course for the <i>Lost World</i>. Deep in the ruins of this civilization Nemo finds the Eye of Shiva, when bringing it back to the Nautilus, they are attacked by Giant Squid. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now Captain Nemo reveals his true plan, he wants to use the power of the Eye to kill every human being as revenge for his killed family. He abandons Ned on the open sea and returns to his base. Ned follows them, while the Nautilus is overpowered by General Anson, who discovered and conquered Captain Nemo’s hide-out. To make matters worse, a new expedition under the command of Farragut also discovered the islands and starts bombarding it. While Ned fights and frees Julie, the Professor and Nemo, General Anson activates the Eye. It’s power summons a huge, roaring storm over the small island. General Anson tries to escape on an airship, but is killed by Captain Nemo. Farragut’s attack damaged the Nautilus, so Ned has to go out in a diving suit and de-activate the Eye of Shiva. He succeeds, but the Nautilus – with Captain Nemo aboard – falls down a deep chasm. The End.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Observations:</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Unclear enemy force</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: I feel, there a few too many antagonistic forces at play in this script. On the first page General Anson is introduced as the main evil force. But in the middle of the script, his ottoman henchman does all the work and General Anson is only in the background. After a while Farragut comes into the play, another British Navy officer, whose only job seems to be to be a disruptive factor for everyone else. I wonder why the script writer put him in? In the last part Nemo also develops evil traits, threatening to destroy the world, which makes sense, regarding his personal history. As motivation for the character it is interesting and a nice twist at the end, but the threat is never addressed after the attack by Anson and just vanishes. This feels shallow and lacking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lacking Characterization</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: Who is the main protagonist? It clearly should be Ned Land. He gets dragged aboard in his Call to Adventure, he has the love story. But he only follows Captain Nemo. Ned develops no agenda of his own and no motivation to do anything in this script. Captain Nemo on the other hand gets a tragic back-story, has a clearly defined goal to pursue, but along the way also seems to be evil. So, the script is split between two characters: Ned, the flat archetype of a movie hero and Captain Nemo, the tragic, but ultimately corrupted prince, pushing the story forward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Project:</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The script is based on the classic science-fiction by Jules Vernes, published in 1870. There were a few movie adaptations starting in 1907 with a silent short film. The most famous adaptation, produced by Walt Disney, came out in 1954, but there are dozens of other movie and TV versions of this tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Titley (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) wrote this version of the script for Sam Raimi to produce, but nothing came of it. After McG had a go at it, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000399/">David Fincher</a> (Se7en, The Social Network) is now directing this Remake/Adaptation, to be released in 2013.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks for reading,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">- Tristan</span></span></div>
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