Screenwriter STUART BEATTIE: Tricks of the Trade

[Privatejoker88]

"No bookends"? He wrote Collateral, In one of the first scenes Tom Cruise talks about a guy dying on the train and nobody noticing, the last scene of the film bookends this.

[kacyjan]

I am pretty damn sure the film had a bookend too. Well.....a bookend at the beginning anyway

[kacyjan]

In Tomorrow When the War began, written by Stuart - the DOG died!!!

[DafTacoustics]

Stevie Janowski?

[nkh40]

@DafTacoustics Brilliant. Dead ringer.

[greatwareagle]

The logic behind killing an animal is that they purely act on instinct - they dont have a concept of right or wrong. They lack all of the things that justify (or rationalize) the killing of humans on film, such as manipulation, deceit, malice, betrayal, etc.

If an animal does engage in such behavior, it is only because we interpret it that way - the animal has no way of realizing it.

[carlos1234567898765]

waste of my time. there are no rules to a truely good film. this guy makes shitty hollyhood fuckups.

[Teraconseliad]

In Jurassic Park 2, nobody said a thing about the body count, but the second that doghouse hung from the chain... EVERYONE gasped.

[bigstabby]

Dont kill the dog. No Country for Old Men really showed how people care more for animals than people. When they walked up on the scene of the shootout and saw all the bodies, everyone points out the dog. "Ah hell they even shot the dog".

[alejandro15187]

I scoffed when I first read this, but your right. Think of the scene where the pitbull is chasing Broslin's character. It starts off all menancing, then they both end up in the river, which is bigger than them both and therefore equalizes them. Then Broslin gets out, dries his gun, and shoots the dog. I felt bad for the damn dog!

[pikiwiki]

@alejandro15187 if you have ever been chased by a dog like that, you know what the term hellhound describes

[Cuah123]

tarantino broke all those rules!

[tatedominguez]

no he didnt

[Cuah123]

sure check out his confessional on the new reservoir dogs DVD, under special features. He tells the whole history of how that movie got made and talks about his script. All left column, non formatted, misspelled on a regular typewriter...his own words, not mine.

[pikiwiki]

@Cuah123 rodriguez is way, way better

[margaretannem8s]

Short but insightful. Whole thing would be really informative on the DVD

[tylerdurdenisjesus]

he is gay