Frank Miller’s The Spirit is Soulless
I loved Frank Miller. He’s a brilliant comic book writer/artist and one of the most celebrated creators living today. Sin City, 300, The Dark Knight Returns, Ronin, and various character-defining runs on titles such as Daredevil – all birthed from this man’s wildly imagination. So when I heard he was helming the movie adaptation of [...]
Screenwriting Tip of the Month: April
It’s almost always better to have a character do something rather than say it. Why? True, humans love to talk, but all (good) psychologists will tell you that the majority of human communication is nonverbal. We gather far more information from a person through his body language than by what he says. For example, lets [...]
Bad Screenwriting, Exhibit A: Max Payne
Almost all of my beloved screenplays are adaptations of some sort. My favorite action movie is Terminator 2, which is a sequel to the 1984 movie. My favorite martial arts movie is Drunken Master 2, which is a sequel as well but also pulls elements from the biography of real-life folk hero Wong Fei Hung. [...]
Slumdog Millionaire Earns “Bank” in the Year of the Ox
Happy New Year … again! Today is the first day of the Year of the Ox, according to the lunar calendar, and just want to wish everyone all the best — and that’s no bull. Ok, bad jokes aside, I did give me and my girlfriend an early New Year’s gift. We watched Slumdog Millionaire [...]
Oldboy New Again?
I just got news that one of my favorite movies — let alone one of my favorite foreign movies — called Oldboy is going to be remade by Will Smith and Steven Spielberg. And I’m not sure how to take it. Bloggers and online movie “journalists” around the world are screaming bloody murder and demanding [...]
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