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rnhf t1_ja77ec3 wrote

Reply to comment by bludgeonerV in Brendan Fraser wins SAG award 2023 (please excuse video quality) by TheBrightestBestStar

it's good, but honestly I expected a bit more from aronofsky. For something that was adapted from a play, it had a pretty mediocre script IMHO

Definitely amazing perfomances from every actor involved (they had to be for this movie, and if I remember correctly, it was VERY carefully cast, and they rehearsed the whole movie for like a week or something before actually shooting), and all the other stuff was great as well, just the writing didn't really work for me

Good movie overall though, worth a watch. Kinda depressing, but in the "catharsis at the end"-kinda way if that makes sense lol

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Orngog t1_ja81lgz wrote

Do you watch a lot of plays? I always think movies from walk a treacherous path, dialogue for the state is written for projection, cinema is telegraphic- it brings the faraway close-up. Certainly, I would not expect an adaptation to have a great script... Too much has to change, one way or the other.

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rnhf t1_ja84iqp wrote

you adapt a play because of the script, because you have to basically change everything else. And a good script, for a play I mean, usually has to be strong enough that it stands on its own, you're gonna have different directors, actors etc. A good playwright knows this and writes something that can speak for itself.

It's obviously not a science, but when a great director like aronofsky spends this much time and energy on adapting a script from stage to screen, yeah, I kinda have high expectations

>Do you watch a lot of plays?

nah, theatre is gay

I'm kidding, but I actually don't watch a lot of plays anymore

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