Re: Prometheus - Things I learned listening to the two commentaries

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Re: Prometheus - Things I learned listening to the two commentaries

LoL, great find Dorkman, bout sums it up.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Re: Prometheus - Things I learned listening to the two commentaries

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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I'm of the opinion that the drama of a story is evident in what is happening, so the overuse of capitalisation to force emotional responses from the reader is off-putting and slightly condescending. Scripts shouldn't need laugh tracks.

So that's my initial reaction, but I'm also surprised at how crude the prose is. It's not as bad, though, as Rodriguez's unproduced early draft of Predators (the one with Dutch), which was written as if an 8-year-old on a sugar rush was dictating it.

But fun fact, I've already spotted a few lines of dialogue even in this draft that would have immediately improved the flow and logic of the film had they been shot (or left in the cut of the film) - someone actually registering what Shaw has gone through in the medical bay for instance.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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I like having the flexibility to occasionally put in a direction like that on the page if it seems really crucial for the scene, so that doesn't bug me as much. The other stuff.....christ am I worried for Star Trek into Darkness

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