Script Guy

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Carson Reeves' Script Shadow, which attempts to review the latest Hollywood scripts, is, at the very least, amusingly written. A conversational blunt style that reminds me of....uhm, well, me.

At the top of the Script Shadow pile right now is a relative oldie -- Brad Inglesby's The Low Dweller, which reportedly sold for $650,000 and may/will star Leonardo DiCaprio with Ridley Scott directing. I found it a boringly pretentious effort that took me three tries to get through. Here's what I said about it on 3.23.08....ready?

"I have an instant problem with scene descriptions of rottin' dead dogs and mayflies and greasy spoons with good old truck drivers sayin' where they've a'trucked to. I especially don't like readin' about some lowdown Robert Johnson tune playin' as a title card says we're in the southern Indiana lowlands in the year 1985. That was back when Ronald Reagan was in the White House and scratchy 78 rpms of Johnson's Delta blues songs were heard almost everywhere, and were cherished in the hearts of the people.

"Hollywood sure loves the idea of rural Middle America bein' a land where there ain't no Walmart or Starbucks or nothin' like that, and where workin' men called Slim and Buck and Jethro sip from half-pint whiskey bottles and roll their own makins and order eggs, taters 'n' bacon as they wipe sweat from their brows with tattooed forearms."

If Reeves want to get in touch I can provide him with some newer, better scripts.