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Counter-point: Eric Roth is a terribly shitty writer and Curious Case of Benjamin Button would’ve blown if David Fincher didn’t make the visual, artistic decisions he did.
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Yeah, I guess I haven’t read the Benjamin Button script so I don’t know if he employs this technique but screenwriters have kind of had to adopt the director philosophy of brainwashing the audience into interpreting things the way they want them to. The only difference is writers are trying to brainwash the director. Visual ques, transitions and even the way actors portray their characters can and should be dictated in the script without anybody really noticing, if it’s done correctly.
Who would have thought that fuckin’ Transformers 2 would spark this kind of intelligent conversation on film?