I thought “A Boy’s Life” was easy to read. The shot directions really helped me visualize the entire movie in my head. Wherever there were not shots were not specified, I was left wondering what exactly the scene should look like. I am actually thinking of going to rent the movie, just to compare how the director interpreted the screenplay. Reading a screenplay is a lot different from reading a novel. In a novel, the reader doesn’t always know the specific angles or how wide or how close a shot is. They just read it and imagine for themselves what scene might look like and it might be completely different from how the author pictured it when he wrote the novel. I didn’t find the screenplay boring at all to read. The storyline of E.T. is a really memorable one, whenever I think of classic films. However, I thought that the scene with the doctors was a bit confusing and hard to picture. I thought the screenplay felt complete and I think non professionals could read it.
Discussion Questions:
Do you think screenplay writers have more control over how their readers visualize their stories compared to novelists?
How do you think the movie compared with the screenplay?
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Any good writer has control with how a reader visualizes their story. With a script, you blatantly tell the reader what’s going on. With a book, the visual is harder to actually do, but easier to find yourself lost as the reader in the development.
And as far as I could tell, the movie compared really closely with what the script said. Some very minor changes, but for the most part it was correct through out.
good questions!
I havent seen the movie in awhile but i think the screenplay closely matched the film for the most part, as i read the script i could imagine every scene from the movie in my head.
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