Screenplays

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American Beauty — The Shooting Script

The screenplay. A satire on the American Dream and American suburbia and a story of sexual obsession and a man trying to reclaim his life. (118 pages)
Level: B/A
9781579128111

Annotated Godfather

This fully annotated and illustrated edition of the screenplay of The Godfather is packed with facts, behind-the-scenes information and interviews. Every scene, every shot is annotated with fascinating information including technical information about the filming, set design, shooting locations, scenes never filmed, gaffes and insider stories from the set. Author: Jenny M. Jones. (263 pages)
Level: From the end of the first year of the Gymnasium 

0571194532

Bonnie and Clyde

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    The screenplay of the ground-breaking film. Controversial for its “cool violence” — violence with style — that later inspired a host of imitators. A study in American myth — Bonnie and Clyde are more successful as media figures than they are as gangsters. An excellent text for studying extra dimensions that film gives to the written word. The book contains the screenplay, background articles, interviews and criticism. (88.6 standard pages [screenplay]
    Level: C+B.
    • 0748703500

    Boys from the Blackstuff (Screenplay)

    The complete script of the famous 5-episode TV series about five unemployed men and their fight for dignity in the wasteland of Liverpool. The individual episodes can be read independently. Useful introduction and good working suggestions. (170 standard pages)
    Level: C/B.
    8788497348

    Boys from the Blackstuff Workbook

    Danish glossary and background material. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
    0099421968

    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Screenplay)

    The screenplay of Louis de Bernières epic story of war, love and place. A multi-facetted story. (118 pages)
    Level: B
    1557043000

    Dead Man Walking — The Shooting Script

    The screenplay of Tim Robbins’ film — based on Helen Prejean’s original book about her involvement with two Death Row cases (written together as one case in the film). A film that raises many important moral questions. Forewords by Helen Prejean and Tim Robbins. Screen Notes. (176 pages/screenplay: 143 pages)
    Level: B/A
    9780141044743

    An Education (screenplay)

    Set in 1961, this is the story of the bizarre relationship between suburban teenager Jenny and older man David after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Jenny is brighter than most kids her age, and her parents always dreamt of getting their exceptional daughter into Oxford. But she is also tired of the familar adolescent routine and eager to start her adult life — she longs for romance and sophistication to inject some excitement into her humdrum schoolgirl existence. She finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance with the mysterious and much older playboy. Jenny begins accompanying him to classical concerts, art auctions, crowded pubs, and dinners that stretch into the small hours of the night. Is David placing her traditional education in danger or opening up a whole new world for her? Nick Hornby's screenplay is based on journalist Lynn Barber's real-life experience as recounted in her book “An Education”. There is also a long introduction in which Hornby wittily describes the process of converting someone's very personal memoir into a film. Author: Nick Hornby. (163 pages — screenplay)
    Level: All years of the Gymnasium
    1854596330

    Erin Brockovich — The Shooting Script

    This is Susannah Grant's intelligent and witty complete screenplay of "Erin Brockovich", the Oscar-winning film starring Julia Roberts and Albert Finney and directed by Steven Soderbergh. It is the story of someone on the moral high ground (a case of chemical pollution of local water supplies with terrible human consequences) fighting for what is right in a legal arena that too often favors those who have money to burn. Unlike so many legal dramas this one never declines into melodrama. The film has a sense of balance too. Soderbergh shows how Erin's growing obsession with the case — something that is finally earning her respect — forces her to make sacrifices on the home front. In one of the movie's most poignant scenes, she learns that she missed the first word spoken by her infant daughter. She also becomes deeply, emotionally involved in the plight of the people of Hinkley, California, learning the names, phone numbers, and case histories of more than 600 people by heart. The book includes an introduction by Susannah Grant, as well as Production Notes, stills and full credits.  (139 pages — screenplay = 113 pages)
    Level: B

    0752202189

    Get Shorty (screenplay)

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    When Chili Palmer, a small-time loan shark from Miami, is sent to Hollywood to collect a debt from a B-movie king, you might have expected him to be out of his depth. But Chili glides into the mind and morals of tinsel town with no problem at all. A satirical view of the film world. Screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. (152 pages)
    Level: C/B

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    9781557046703

    Hotel Rwanda (screenplay and essays)

    This book, edited by director Terry George, includes essays on the history of the genocide, the complete screenplay written by Keir Pearson & Terry George, and more than 70 historical photos and film stills:
    In 1994, as his country descended into madness, Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager of a Belgian-owned luxury hotel in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, used cunning and courage to save 1,268 people from certain death while the rest of the world closed its eyes. Outside about 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsi, were being slaughtered by machete-wielding Hutu, the country's majority. His story inspired Terry George, to make the extraordinary film, Hotel Rwanda. The complete screenplay of the film makes up the main part of this film.
    The book also contains several essays:  Terry George and co-screenwriter Keir Pearson's stories of their three-year struggle to gain support and financing; a brief history of Rwanda with details on the actual events portrayed in the movie;  journalist Nicola Graydon's report on joining Paul Rusesabagina when he first returned to Rwanda on the tenth anniversary of the genocide; writer Anne Thompson's personal journal of her visit to the set in Africa; the transcript of the PBS Frontline documentary revealing the afterthoughts of officials who chose not to listen to the cries for help. In addition there is a timeline of the crisis and a further reading and viewing list. (256 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium/Good interdisciplinary possibilities
    9781557048271

    Milk (Screenplay)

    This is the screenplay of Gus Van Sant's highly praised film starring Sean Penn:
    In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely assassination in 1978, a hero for all Americans. Author of Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black. (130 pages + photos).
    Level: From the end of the first year of the Gymnasium 

    In addition to the complete screenplay, this book includes:
    * an introduction by Gus Van Sant
    * scene notes by Dustin Lance Black
    * an exclusive conversation with Black, Van Sant, and activist Cleve Jones, who was mentored by Harvey Milk
    * a color photo section
    * and the complete cast and crew credits.

    0571202543

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    A play that gives you an authentic taste of Britain today as seen through the eyes of Hanif Kureishi who is half-Pakistani.
    “My Beautiful Launderette” is a story of the meeting of British and Pakistani cultures in London — a story of narrowness and intolerance, but also a story of growing understanding, communication and even love. The story revolves around Omar and Johnny’s efforts to turn a delapidated launderette into “Powders” — my beautiful launderette. NB! New cheaper Faber Classics edition of the screenplay, but with the same pagination as the old edition. (67 pages)
    Level: B/A.
    0141021381

    Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader

    This companion to Michael Moore's documentary includes a full transcript of the film (including extra outtakes), a collection of source materials for the movie, and critical responses to the film, including reviews, cartoons, editorials, and articles. Mike fires back at the critics with this “Fact Bible” to prove that it's all true. (342 pages)
    Level: B/A
    9780571200689

    Pulp Fiction

    This is Tarantino's Academy Award winning screenplay of his 1994 film, which transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays his visceral approach to character and plot. Author: Quentin Tarantino. (208 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet
    0451183886

    Raisin in the Sun (Screenplay)

    Available again!! Lorraine Hansberry’s own screenplay that was turned into a moving film in 1961. Based on her Broadway play. The story of a black family who move into an all-white neighbourhood in Chicago. They fight to preserve their dignity and sense of self as the family is threatened with dissolution by the forces of racism and greed. (206 pages)
    Level: B
    0571201083

    Shakespeare in Love

    The Tom Stoppard/Marc Norman screenplay. His love for Lady Viola solves Will Shakespeare’s writer’s block. (154 pages)
    Level: A/B.
    9781848420397

    Slumdog Millionaire (Screenplay)

    With the whole nation watching Jamal Malik is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on susicion of cheating: how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answer to each of the game show's questions. But the final question remains a mystery. One Chief Inspector and Sixty Million viewers are about to find out what the answer is. Author: Simon Beaufoy. Director: Danny Boyle. (166 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium
    0571175694

    Smoke and Blue in the Face

    Drama by Paul Auster — NB! This is now a “Print on Demand” title. Smoke is the story of Paul Benjamin, a novelist suffering from writers block — and the violent death of his wife — who is inspired to write again by contact with a young black kid. This volume also includes an interview with Auster about the the making of Smoke and the text of Auster short story on which it was originally based. Also included is Blue in Face. a spontaneous drama in which actors improvise on the basis of scenes and characters from Smoke. (Smoke = 134 pages)
    Level: B/A
    0571203159

    Taxi driver

    Paul Schrader’s screenplay. Now in a cheaper Faber edition of the screenplay, but with the same pagination as the old edition. New York loner Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his genuine disgust with the corruption he sees around him.His pent-up rage, and the frustration caused by his hopeless relationship with the smart political campaign worker Besty, leads him into an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence. (89 pages)
    Level: B
    0802134629

    Thelma and Louise (Screenplay)

    The screenplay of the archetypal road-trip film, where both the central characters are women, who shake off the influence of their useless men along the way. This edition also includes another screenplay by Callie Khouri: Something to Talk About. Interview with the author. (Thelma & Louise = 188 pages)
    Level: B/A
    1854594176

    Truman Show — The Shooting Script

    This is Andrew Niccol's screenplay for Peter Weir's film. The film sets up a “reality TV” show about an innocent called Truman Burbank, who doesn't even know that his whole life is a carefully scripted fiction, beamed out to millions of viewers around the world. He is the unwitting star and prisoner of a 24-hour-a-day soap opera. When the truth dawns on Truman, he challenges the god-like creator of The Truman Show, and makes his escape into the real world. This is a satire on media manipulation which is both engrossing in its own right and highly relevant to contemporary media trends — and thereby very accessible to young people. Introduction by Peter Weir. (Script: 107 pages)
    Level: B

    9781854599834

    United 93: The Shooting Script

    “United 93” meticulously recreates — in real time — the story of a single flight, from just before take off to its doomed descent. It follows, minute-by-minute the passengers and crew, but also the flight controllers — many played by themselves — who watched with disbelief as United Airlines 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on 11 September 2001. Filmed by Paul Greengrass this dramatic reconstruction drew on tapes of flight control intercoms, as well as hours of interviews with the families of the passengers and crew. The largely unknown actors then used improvisation grounded in these facts. As Greengrass says: “One of the reasons why ‘United 93’ exerts such a powerful hold on our imaginations is precisely because we don't know exactly what happened. Who among us doesn't think about that day and wonder how we might have reacted?” Published in the aftermath of the film, this volume contains the complete Shooting Script plus a range of reviews, essays, notes and credits. (163 pages)
    Author: Paul Greengrass (who also directed the film). Paul Greengrass used similar re-constructional techniques with great success in ‘Bloody Sunday’.
    Contents: The Initial Treatment — The Final Shooting Script — Q & A with Paul Greengrass — Production Notes — “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes” — Film Reviews by Martin Amis, Stephen King etc.  — Film and Production Stills — List of Flight 93's crew and passengers — Cast and Crew Credits
    Level: B/Interdisciplinary possibilities with Samfundsfag etc.

    9780571235896

    Venus

    In this screenplay Hanif Kureishi looks at the pains of old age. Maurice and Ian are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is disrupted by the arrival in their lives of Ian's niece Jessie. While Jessie's house-keeping skills become a bone of contention between her and Ian, Maurice, on the other hand, finds himself attracted to Jodie and seeks a more intimate relationship with her. The dialogue between them is, by turns, humorous, painful and touching as Youth struggles with Age. Also included in this volume is an Introduction by Kureishi in which he reveals the inspiration for the screenplay in the work of the Japanese master Tanizaki. This volume includes an introduction to “Venus” by Kureishi and and the short story “Weddings and Beheadings”. The film version of “Venus” starred Peter O'Toole, Leslie Philips and Jodie Whittaker. (Screenplay: 107 pages)
    Level: B (well-suited to mature students)

    9780954215958

    Wind That Shakes the Barley: Screenplay

    This is the screenplay of Ken Loach's moving film:
    Ireland 1920. Workers from field and town unite to form guerrilla armies to face the ruthless ‘Black and Tans’ shipped from Britain to block Ireland’s bid for independence. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his career as a doctor and joins his brother Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the freedom fighters’ bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, both sides finally agree to a Treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts, and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted against one another as sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test. In addition to the screenplay, this edition contains a number of essays and notes on the film and the Irish struggle for independence. (162 pages)
    Author: Paul Laverty. Paul Laverty has written a number of other screenplays directed by Ken Loach including: ‘My Name Is Joe’ (1998), ‘Bread and Roses’ (2000), and ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ (2004).
    Contents: Introduction — Director’s Note — Producer’s Note — Screenwriter’s Note — Production Notes — Cast Notes — Film Credits — The Irish Revolution — Synopsis — Screenplay — Film Stills (8-page section) — Ken Loach: Film-maker — Irish History on Screen
    Level: B/Interdisciplinary possibilities with History