Unbroken

Screenwriting Drafts of History

IT is only fitting that the extraordinary political year would give way to the season of the political biopic. With terse titles that grandly promise the last word on their subject, Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,”Oliver Stone’s “W.” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” all deal with once- (or still-) incendiary political figures.
While the films bear a strong directorial point of view, the directors also worked with screenwriters who laid the groundwork for wrangling a life into the shape of a narrative. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (11249 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 gennaio 2008