USC: ‘No Country’ is Scriptacular
The 20th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award for achievement in cinematic adaptation went to Joel and Ethan Coen for bringing Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men to the big screen. Other finalists (aka: losers) included Christopher Hampton for Atonement, Sean Penn for Into the Wild, Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood and James Vanderbilt for Zodiac.
Steven Zaillian was awarded the inaugural Scripter Literary Achievement Award. The only three-time Scripter winner, Zaillian won the prize for Schindler’s List, Awakenings and A Civil Action.
As we speak, awards committees the world over are meeting to come up with new awards they can bestow upon No Country for Old Men. Coming up next: The Little Lebowski Pulitzer Prize…
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Good for No Country, the script is really good and Joel & Ethan Coen outdid themselves with the films script, it is one of their best efforts to date, if not the best.
No Country book and film are a dynamic duo and truly worthy winners.
Awesome! Though, really, I would have been pleased if any of the five nominees had won.
WGA announces tomorrow.
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A Civil Action?
I know I saw that movie, but I couldn’t tell you anything that happens in it except that Travolta spills a glass of water.
I seem to remember James Gandolfini being a quiet, sensitive guy in that film.
William H. Macy continually becomes upset with Travolta over their situation.
Travolta is pulled over by a cop twice.
Robert Duvall owns the film every time he pops up. He made me interested in the film with his presence.
That’s just about all I can remember.
The fact that Travolta was in it is exactly one more thing than what I knew about it already.
in ‘98, I was much more of an old movie guy than a new release guy. I remember that one playing now, but there was never actually any danger that I might see it.