Standard Reader Notes
2006-May-9 by Laughcalvin
This snippet from Michael Koresky's review of James Marsh's "The King" is worth printing because I once got notes from a Pro Reader on a script I wrote that sounded very, very famialiar:
Like "Monster's Ball," that inexplicable and dishearteningly popular piece of portent that was like a Stanley Kramer tolerance drama aspiring to Wim Wenders-esque regional dislocation (in other words, a hopeless muddle), "The King" was partly written by Milo Addica, who, with "Birth" also on his resume, apparently never met a thudding metaphor he didn't love. Here, there's no room for spontaneity, for nuance of character in the overdetermined world Marsh has established; the actors, though game, seem suffocated."
Wow. Is it true that many films or scripts are over-written or forced upon the actors so to speak? What do you think? (Indiewire)
2006-May-9 - Untitled Comment Posted by Anonymous
actors should NEVER be asked to speak lines that are instintive to them in the moment. therefore, yeah, pretty much all dialogue is forced upon them... crazy writers.
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2006-May-9 - Improv
Posted by BlogMaster
Well...yes, but some writer/directors give actors a situation, an emotion, perhaps a pointer and let them feel it out for themselves, see what comes out of it. Lars Von Traer comes to mind but there are many others. But as a "writer" I agree with you but I do highly respect less-contrived cinmea. I thought the reviewer was a little vitrolic on the co-writer/writer.
LC
