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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?
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That’s why when I write a script, I leave it the bare minimum: character movements/descripts, brief scenery descriptions and dialogue. Sometimes I give it flare by throwing shit in there like my colorful words but I like to keep it as raw as possible because I know the director will add meat to it. That doesn’t mean the script is empty and soulless though and doesn’t take some talent (which I fully believe I have 
) to write. Because some of the best films have been because of the writer: Rudy Wurlitzer is a fine example of a man who wrote films that were brilliant on paper and on screen.
