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Title: Magnolia: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book) by Paul Thomas Anderson ISBN: 1-55704-406-6 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST FILM OF THE CENTURY ROBBED OF BEST SCREENPLAY OF YEAR
Comment: MAGNOLIA is the brilliant 3-hour intimate epic of Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director-genius-walking God-auteur-idol.
It's the story of redemption, loss, lonliness and apocalyptic cataclysm over the course of one day but you can't begin to describe in words anything about what it's truly about even after seeing it.
MAGNOLIA was a brilliant film. At 3 hours and 8 minutes, MAGNOLIA is a vast film of such brilliant and breathtaking vision, it makes you wish they gave an OSCAR for BEST SCOPE.
I've read the screenplay by ANDERSON and bought the book and it too is brilliant, just like the film. But I suspect because of the publicized editing in the film, ANDERSON'S SHOOTING SCRIPT that is the book is actually more in depth in the nature of certain characters and scenes. The film neglects to explain fully some of the plot threads and the script scoops them up and cradles them in light.
It's a self-affirming jolt of a movie that is sure to be unpredictable by everyone. I do recommend both to everyone who can understand the pain of the characters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Anderson perfects the art of characterization...and more.
Comment: "Magnolia" is a film that should go down in history. And for the mere reason of Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson's brilliant screenwriting is seen the best through his characters. By this talent the piece truly is an ensemble film, for no character outshines the next. Linda Partridge and Claudia Gator, my personal favorite characters, go through the gamut of emotions throughout the script, while likewise staying true to their original motives and feelings.
Basically, the thing that makes Anderson's characters real is that they ARE real. They are normal people whose lives have, along the lines, come apart at every possible seam. No people live absolutely perfect, happy lives, and this is what Anderson gets across. Many of the characters in the script on first look seem invincible, strong, glorified, and beautiful. It does not take long for the reader to see, though, that the most perfect people have the weakest constitutions and strength.
The film is superb. The actors and actresses Anderson used were the ones that could get the job done, not just the big names (okay, despite Tom Cruise and maybe Julianne Moore) that would pull in the crowds. Anderson's direction is also brilliant, for you see that he and his script pulled every ounce of his characters out of his cast.
Anderson is somewhat like the Mel Brooks of the modern, dramatic realm of film. He writes his scripts, does the directing, and he uses the actors and actresses that he knows will deliver. Many of the castmates in Magnolia also appeared in Boogie Nights, and some even in the earlier Anderson film, Hard Eight. He...in truth...is brilliant, and this script is his best one yet I think. My fingers are crossed for him at the Academy Awards this March for his Screenplay nomination, but I'm only upset that no more than three people (Anderson, Aimee Mann, & Cruise) were recognized by the Academy for their amazing performances in the film (especially Melora Walters).
And the bottom line...Anderson is pure brilliance and is one of the next great film makers of our time, and I cannot wait to continue following his career.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent film but the script????
Comment: I have to say when I first read the script I was kinda of disappointed because there are changed lines in it like the scene where Frank meets his father for the first time its almost completely changed but I'm not mad its cool reading stuff from what Anderson wrote first But disappointing there are so many great stuff that are in the film but not in the script thats why I'm disappointed. Its a very well done script but changed.
See Magnolia first and then read the screenplay.
Matt
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Title: Punch-Drunk Love: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) by Paul Thomas Anderson ISBN: 1557045682 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: American Beauty: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts) by Alan Ball, Sam Mendes ISBN: 155704404X Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson ISBN: 0571215459 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 30 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Being John Malkovich (Faber and Faber Screenplays) by Charlie Kaufman ISBN: 0571205860 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script Series) by Charlie Kaufman ISBN: 1557046107 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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