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Badlands gets a workout in our new Review column
Our new-look regular Script Factory Reviews beginning Summer 2008, offer a script-centred perspective on both classic and contemporary films. Appearing once a month, journalist and developer, Trevor Johnston, explores how a produced screenplay can help a screenwriter to better understand his or her own work.
In addition to the reviews below, you can also follow these links to read extracts from previous Script Factory Masterclasses, and find out what's on this month for filmmakers & developers.
Badlands
Tue, 26 Aug 2008
Our new Review column sees Trevor Johnston taking apart a film a month to see how the script has made it work. This month he tackles the voiceover in Terrence Malick’s Badlands and finds just how much it completes the picture.
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Wall-E
Sun, 24 Aug 2008
With their clear-cut character dilemmas and brilliant blend of humour and action, Pixar animated features like Toy Story and Finding Nemo have long been the focus of much admiration in screenwriting circles, so the release of Wall-E seemed like perfect timing to begin our new Review column looking at films from a script-centred perspective. Each month from here on in, reviewer Trevor Johnston will be putting a different title on the workbench to take it apart and see how it works.
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Juno
Mon, 23 Jun 2008
First time screenwriter, Diablo Cody, scoops both BAFTA and Oscar for her script for smash hit Juno – and our reviewer Owain Gillard, thinks it’s quite right too.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mon, 4 Feb 2008
The camera darts through the twilight of Tim Burton’s Gothic London like a thing possessed. Dockside stands a pale and prematurely aged man, his tousled hair dark but for a streak of white. This is Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) - formerly Benjamin Barker, barber extraordinaire - and he’s back in London town with a vengeance after serving fifteen years for a crime he didn’t commit - a cruel fate dished out by the villainous Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) in a bid to make Todd’s beautiful wife Lucy and his young daughter Johanna his own.
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Babel
Wed, 21 Feb 2007
A pair of younger eyes see the good in Babel - we asked enterprising sixth form student critic, Jamie Jackson-Ritchie, to cast his eye over one of the Best Picture Oscar contenders this year.
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United 93
Mon, 19 Feb 2007
Screenwriter Graham Stokhuyzen lifts the lid on United 93 to find a work of surprising dramatic subtlety …
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