If you think twice, you don’t have to say it twice. Just five years ago, if you faded out on page 120, you were still shy of the red zone. Now, opening a hundred and twenty page script makes me moan with inconsolable self-pity and drop my head on my keyboard. 109 looks like fighting…
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Now @chrismcquarrie is a ten out of ten, who the hell would argue? But this is just a terrible thing to do to Chazz Palminteri. From the actual Oscar Winning screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie: VERBAL The D.A. gave me immunity. KUJAN NOT FROM ME, YOU PIECE OF SHIT. THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FROM…
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It’s late, your optic nerves are shriveling, your laptop is so hot it’s burning your thighs. You need to get from here to there, fast. You’re in a weakened condition. You take a shortcut, you shoehorn a raw and bloody slab of backstory into a conversation where it doesn’t belong so you can move your…
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