Saturday, April 21, 2012

Script review - "Point Blank" by Alex Jacobs

I was curious to read this because Walter Hill said it made him look at writing scripts in a completely new way. It's tough and terse and short like the best Hill scripts with minimal description, character through action and sudden bursts of violence. It's confusing to read at times, like the film was confusing at times - all those jump cuts and time leaps - and the female characters aren't exactly deep (the wife and her sister are basically whores with the sister just a nicer one)... but then the male characters aren't exactly deep (tough and treacherous, tough and honourable). There is some 60s stuff with the mafia bad guys talking about being more corporate and into profit but they are still into the same honour killings. There is the occasional clunky line of dialogue.

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