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Benton's sharp screenplay is sensational in creating colorful, likable, and original characters.
Of course, it's based (albeit loosely) on Poe's classic tale, so the story is bound to be solid; but it doesn't take all of it's influence from Poe, and so Dennis Paoli can take a lot of credit for the screenplay he wrote for the movie.
This hysterically funny screenplay written by Nora Ephron and played for every laugh by Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, and Carol Kane will put a smile on your face.
A delightful group of players make the most of a screenplay that is filled to the brim with chucklesome dialogue.
Could Mel Brooks have seen this before he wrote his screenplay for "The Producers"?
I was appalled that Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for her drab screenplay.
Of the many AFI awards "La Spagnola" was nominated for (don't blame the institute; it can't be easy coming up with candidates - although Alice Ansara, who played Lucia, DID deserve her nomination for best actress; she even deserved to win, which she didn't), the most puzzling was for original screenplay.
This is an ORIGINAL screenplay?
This schlock of a screenplay should have been a Showtime or HBO Original movie or to be more exact it would be better suited for Lifetime or Oxygen Channels.
Don't expect too many visual effects here : the suspense is intensely psychological and the cast does deliver, even though the screenplay sometimes doesn't (to be honest, the story is not always clear).
The screenplay is not conventional and the movie is almost experimental in parts but ... so what ?
While it was directed by Hitchcock, it doesn't feel like a Hitchcock movie at all, and the true auteurs of the film are the dialogue writer (separate from screenplay writer in the credits), Sidney Gilliat, and the star, who is also the villain, Charles Laughton.
His movies are more like a documentary than a screenplay.
In my opinion, to give a ten, cinema art qualities should be taken into account, like camera work, or robustness of plot, which allows for ellipses, or smartness of the screenplay.
It may be the first time in my life that I actually felt sorry for the actors, who really were at the mercy of this doomed screenplay.
Fine screenplay writing requires showing the characters in depth so we can appreciate their dilemmas, there challenges, their triumphs, their failures.
Their characters were somewhat shallow, possibly due to a predictable and weak screenplay and script.
The screenplay was definitely up in smoke.
WARNING-potential SPOILER ALERT: Although I am a huge fan of Phillipa Gregory's work, I was extremely disappointed that she allowed the screenplay to be as awful as it was.
Haggis' directing skills have improved, and his screenplay features exceptional dialogue.
It is understandable that the director and producer were much better acquainted with the screenplay than with its source, but the screenwriter has no excuse.
Maybe no screenplay could have adequately conveyed the character's motivations and the plot only makes sense in book form, but this screenwriter's attempt is truly terrible.
Although filmed in London, it has almost no flavor of a bustling city in its screenplay which has him on the trail of a bunch of counterfeiters and looks as if it was filmed on the quick on some strictly low-budget sets.
You cannot find many movies of this genre that are worth seeing, usually because either the screenplay isn't that good or the actors performance is bad.luckily, in this movie everything works like a clock.Peter Ustinov gives us another great performance as he did in "EVIL UNDER THE SUN".The rest of the cast are not bad but some could have been a little bit better.
The screenplay is very good but sometimes it loses control and the movie becomes a little bit boring, especially at the beginning, until the first death.
Moreover the Rod Serling screenplay makes one wish the old master would have left a greater body of work along these lines.
Charles Kenyon wrote the story and the screenplay about a woman who overhears the woman who stole away her husband planning a weekend affair with another man so she hatches an elaborate plan to embarrass the woman and her ex by diverting the cheating couple to her home and getting her ex to come over to catch them.
Allen wrote the screenplay based on his Broadway play and he starred as Allan, a neurotic movie buff who writes the film reviews (what else?).
Filled with sunshine brilliant shots of a beautiful Australian town and buoyed by Peter Weir's magnificent screenplay, this is an outsider classic about a bizarre cargo cult in the middle of an otherwise 'civilized' country.
I felt like reading that screenplay after watching this, because as horrible as I think it is, it can't be as horrible as this movie.
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