Par Vantage Posts Oscar-Contending Scripts
Filed under: Scripts, Oscar Watch, Cinematical Indie, Paramount Vantage
Over at Paramount Vantage, they've posted on a public site the scripts for their potential Oscar-contenders: A Mighty Heart, Into the Wild, The Kite Runner, and Margot at the Wedding. And as Ray Pride over at Movie City Indie very kindly points out to the rest of us, you can also get to the script for There Will Be Blood (goody goody goody!) by getting a little tricksy and just following the URL format of the other films.I don't like to read scripts for movies I haven't seen, generally, but once I've seen a film (particularly if I like it), I do love to go back and read the script; it's endlessly fascinating to me to see how a film starts out as the bare bones of a script, and then how that script gets fleshed out and translated to the screen, to see where the screenwriter's vision ends and the director's begins (when they're two separate people at least -- presumably if it's the same person, the vision doesn't change as much). Then again, I'm a total film dork, and I get fascinated by all kinds of things about film that a lot of people would probably find strange or boring.
Anyhow, I've been reading the scripts for Into the Wild and There Will be Blood... it's always rather interesting to read the script and match it up in my head against the film, and see where things changed from the vision of the script. Do you like to read scripts, either before or after seeing the film?
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10-26-2007 @ 12:01AM
uforeader said...
in general, i don't like reading the script before i see the movie. i faltered slightly a few months ago when i read the first few pages of m. night shyamalan's next movie "the happening." i'm too afraid to read any more for fear of spoiling the film.
i've read the scripts afterwards a few time is it's a movie i really liked. i think i've read "signs" twice now.
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12-03-2007 @ 3:37PM
elle murray said...
I agree. I especially love the Kite Runner Movie script. I am interested to see how it translates to the big screen.
The movie is FINALLY in theatres on the 14th. Go and see.
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