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The Burial 2023
Whatever good will this film creates — and it does create quite a lot — it squanders as soon as it gets into the courtroom. The trial proceedings are preposterous:
• all of the dramatic cross-examination scenes just consist of an attorney making a loud speech full of accusations impugning the character or business practices of the witness. The attorney doesn’t even let the witness answer a question. But if the witness doesn’t admit to the accusations, the evidence doesn’t…
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Very Bad Things 1998
— I wrote a screenplay. It's called Very Bad Things. It’s about five friends who have a bachelor party in Vegas.
— Lay it on me.
— It’s just a draft.
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INT LAS VEGAS HOTEL ROOM
Loud music. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. Something bad happens. Very bad. Everyone yells at each other.
INT CAR
Everyone yells at each other.
EXT DESERT
Everyone yells at each other.
INT CAR
Everyone yells at each other.
INT DINER
Everyone yells at each other.…
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Her 2013
Here is my Her challenge. Take the 230-word dialogue excerpt below from Her, which is fairly representative of the film's dialogue in general, and count the number of concrete nouns. If you get a total greater than zero, redo this step because you did it wrong. Then do the same count with the 90-word love poem which follows, which I found at the first link that popped up when I googled "bad teenage poetry". Again you should get a total…
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Frogs 1972
Fun FROGS fact: just as you have a school of fish, a colony of ants, a gaggle of geese or a plague of locusts, the correct term for a collection of frogs is an army. So perhaps frogs can form an organized attack force after all, though you'd never guess it from this movie.
About a third of the footage in this film is National Geographic style closeups of iguanas, bullfrogs and vipers trying to look as threatening as possible.…
