Go Into The Story: What drives screenwriters crazy!

Seems every where the screenwriter bites the dust. Here Scott Myers puts solid points across courtesy an interview that Tom Hooper gives regarding success of The King's Speech and...not one word on the writer or writing.


Go Into The Story: What drives screenwriters crazy!

Not one word about screenwriter David Seidler. The person without whom the story as written would not exist. Go here and learn about how he had to wait 28 years for Queen Elizabeth to give him approval to go forward with the story. Go here to learn about how Seidler was drawn to the story in large part due to the fact that he had been a stutterer when he was a youth.

He writes The King's Speech as a play. Then as a screenplay. His idea. His vision. His story.

Yet not one bloody word in the article above about Tom Hooper's "secrets of his success."

Movies are a director's medium, fine. But when you don't even mention the screenwriter, the words Hooper used to work with the actors in the film, that is just flat-out bull shit.
So from a parallel universe, here is an addition to the article:

Know when you're dealing with a brilliant script. "Of course, it all starts with the written word," Hooper said. "And what David [Seidler] did was remarkable. I often thought as I drove to the set every morning if it hadn't been for his vision, his persistence, his creativity and that wonderful script which so captured the souls of these two remarkable characters and that story universe, I wouldn't have this job. None of us would." 

"I mean when you're dealing with a brilliant script like the one David wrote, it excites you as a director to see what you can do with it visually... and of course the chance to work with the actors and all that delicious dialogue. I was just so... I guess you could say inspired by the opportunity to work on such a project. But let's just be clear... what you see in the movie, every last frame of it, it's all there in the screenplay really. David created and captured the story. And I was fortunate enough to be able to translate that into onto the screen."

In our dreams, right?


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