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 Posted: Sat 15:44, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: more-talented party. After all |
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performer is silenced by Monte, who points a gun at the poor sap; the clown runs off like a Keystone villain, and Madsen asks cheerily, "Who wants cake?"Watching this sequence unfold, you can't imagine how Reiner could have fumbled it more spectacularly. There are rudimentary directing tasks that he's blowing here. While it's seldom fair to let subsequent missteps trigger reappraisals of a filmmaker's previous work, consider this: Nearly all of Reiner's great films could, if one chose, be seen as primarily the work of another, more-talented party. After all,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Princess Bride was adapted for the screen by William Goldman, from his own book; he's also the gifted writer of Butch Cassidy, All the President's Men, and Marathon Man (among many others). Goldman also wrote Misery—from a novel by Stephen King, who wrote the novella that was faithfully adapted into Stand by Me. This Is Spinal Tap was mostly improvised by a cast led by Christopher Guest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who started making great comedies (with much of the same
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