Hey all
I am starting a new assignment (page 1 rewrite) in the next few weeks.
It's a great story but none of the previous scripts have nailed it, so to speak.
The crazy thing is... if you go on Youtube and look up any doc about the story, the highest rated comments are always a variation on "why isn't this a movie yet".
My feeling is that the other scripts used a stilted, reverential approach to the material - instead of opting for something a bit more stylized and baroque.
And part of my take was/is to tell the story from the antagonist's POV, pepper it with juicy Voice-Over and essentially tell the same story but with a whole lot more "whoomp".
Am I naive I thinking that some scripts are great simply because they are told by the right character and therefore bring out details and observations that would otherwise be missed?
In other words, if you gave me a Goodfellas minus the Voice-Over, told objectively i.e. not from Henry Hill's POV, would it still be a fantastic film?
I am starting a new assignment (page 1 rewrite) in the next few weeks.
It's a great story but none of the previous scripts have nailed it, so to speak.
The crazy thing is... if you go on Youtube and look up any doc about the story, the highest rated comments are always a variation on "why isn't this a movie yet".
My feeling is that the other scripts used a stilted, reverential approach to the material - instead of opting for something a bit more stylized and baroque.
And part of my take was/is to tell the story from the antagonist's POV, pepper it with juicy Voice-Over and essentially tell the same story but with a whole lot more "whoomp".
Am I naive I thinking that some scripts are great simply because they are told by the right character and therefore bring out details and observations that would otherwise be missed?
In other words, if you gave me a Goodfellas minus the Voice-Over, told objectively i.e. not from Henry Hill's POV, would it still be a fantastic film?
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