Tuesday, January 18, 2005

A breath of fresh air Just finished re-watching the film adaptation of Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys." Oohh, tasty dialog that is. Here's a sample from the front end of the movie... GRADY Are you and Hannah seeing each other, James ? JAMES LEER No! What gave you that idea? GRADY Relax, James. I'm not her father. I just rent her a room. JAMES LEER She likes old movies like I do, that's all. GRADY So what was the movie you two saw? JAMES LEER Son of Fury. With Tyrone Power and Frances Farmer. GRADY She went crazy, Frances Farmer. JAMES LEER So did Gene Tierney. She's in it too. GRADY Sounds like a good one. JAMES LEER It wasn't bad. And then, towards the end of the picture, this amazing exchange: They ride in silence for a moment, then Oola turns, glances at GRADY and his little sheaf of pages. OOLA So what was it about? (as GRADY looks up) Your book. What was the story? GRADY stares into Oola's sweet, brown eyes. GRADY I don't know... Oola's brow wrinkles. CRABTREE glances at his old friend, genuine compassion in his eyes. CRABTREE What he means is, it's difficult to distill the essence of a book sometimes. It-lives in the mind. VERNON Yeah, but you gotta know what it's about, right? I mean, if you didn't know what it was about, why were you writing it? GRADY I couldn't stop. You can read the rest of the script here.

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