http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader.jpg Hollywood Script Reader tells it how it is in her weekly blog with FilmIndustryBloggers.com Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:31:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Up until about five years ago, i felt like I could at least partly understand what Nic Cage was doing. First (1981-1986) he was doing the parts he could get--movies that needed handsome young kids, movies his uncle made, etc . Then (1987-1992) he was doing weird shit he liked ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/11/18/scriptreader-investigates-nic-cagefucking-with-me/     VOTE!   If that's not enough incentive, here's a picture of someone else who would be made very happy if you exercised your most important right as an American:                               (Back with an actual blog next week, I hope.) http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/11/03/what-you-must-do-in-order-to-make-it-in-hollywood/ I can't really think of a script reading blog today.  I have election fever and it is blocking my brain from other activities.  But here's something: With a week left until the big day, I have noticed a lot of people listing movies about elections and presidential politics, but, surprisingly, i ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/10/28/i-like-movies-about-politics-and-emile-hirsch-still-sucks/ Just wanted to let you know that if you, like me, have been thinking about being Barbarella for the past 2 Halloweens only to settle on something easier because finding metal capes and black body stockings that aren't super porny is too much work, get your mofo shit together TODAY. ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/10/21/scary-blog-your-barbarella-costumes-days-are-numbered/ To Whom It May Concern: What will it take to convince you that I have been reached by your ad campaign and know that you have a film that came out this weekend?  I have seen banner ads on practically every website I visit, all my social networking sites, the billboards ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/10/14/an-open-letter-to-the-makers-of-quarantine/ Read a script today in which the terrifying killer is fought off by his would-be victims, who know he is a neat freak and cleverly upset his porcelain knickknack collection so as to make him lose his shit. This is not the first time that OCD or other hospital-corners fixations have ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/10/07/abnormality-in-horror-yet-another-thing-that-skeeves-me-out/ Back next week.  In the meantime, anyone wanna discuss Spike Lee? Specifically, his reaction to Italians getting angry about Miracle At St. Anna's revisionist history take on a massacre of Italian civilians in WWII, which the film blames on partisan collaboration with the Nazis, which in real life probably didn't ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/10/01/the-dog-ate-my-blog/ It had everything you want a bad script to have to be the kind of bad that at least entertains (since you have to read it either way). It was wonderful in its awfulness, and reading it, I could feel the universe opening in front of me with ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/09/23/the-worst-script-i-ever-read/ As you may recall, I’m a woman.  If you saw the cover art on the latest Newsweek, you know that this means I’m mainly concerned with boobies and babies and shopping and, occasionally, V.P. and Prez (not Perez, but we girls like him, too!) candidates, so long as ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/09/16/another-oscar-season-another-white-guy-who-knows-an-amazing-black-dude/ Consensus from last week’s blog about using voiceover, flashbacks and phonecalls seems to be that they should be used when they add something that maybe only they can add to the script not just out of laziness because it's easier to have some voice tell the audience what's ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/09/09/a-meditation-on-lazy-writing-with-a-special-guest-blogger/