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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.
Hunger
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Our regular Review column sees Trevor Johnston pulling apart a film every month to see how the script has made it work. This month he explores what it takes to make a 5-star award-winning Brit movie, and one that’s perhaps not as unconventionally drawn as it seems at first sight.
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Badlands
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
This month Trevor Johnston tackles the voiceover in Terrence Malick’s Badlands and finds just how much it completes the picture.
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The Breakfast Club
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
As the John Hughes teen collection get a DVD box set release and we prepare for our imminent Genre Season this November, Trevor turns the focus on one of the seminal rites-of-passage movies. So, neo-maxi zoom dweebies, take another look at The Breakfast Club...
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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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