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November 22, 2005
From Adaptation to Bee and back again: Gyllenhaal on modern scripts
"I feel an enormous debt to Charlie Kaufman, who has really returned screenwriting to an art form," Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal tells the Writers Guild West's Dylan Callaghan. He's "allowed us to deconstruct it and use the visuals—it doesn't have to be completely linear. Bee Season was very challenging because it's a lot about the internal voice of the characters and I had to find a way to externalize that and to visualize it. [But] because the ending was what it was, [that helped]. So few things have a good ending. Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People, Spiderman 2)... says that's the hardest part. He says if you have an ear and you're observant, you can write a story, but to find a good story with a beginning, middle, and an end, that's a hat trick. This one had an ending that was so extraordinary that the struggle to balance the rest of it was made a lot easier by knowing where you were going."
Posted by pride at November 22, 2005 11:28 AM
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