Today is Day 12 of the "14 Days of Screenplays, Version 3.0" challenge and the featured screenplay is for the movie Crash (2004). You can download the script from myPDFscripts.com here.Background: The movie was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, winning 3 including Best Writing, Original Screenplay, screenplay/story by Paul Haggis & screenplay by Robert Moresco. It also won the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. It currently has an 8.0 rating on IMDB.com and is ranked #200 out of their top 250 movies.
Co-writer / director Haggis has received a ton of deserved press about this movie, but I've yet to see anything featuring co-writer Moresco - until now. Here is a 40+ minute sit-down interview with him at the 2008 Cinequest Film Festival, an annual event held in Silicon Valley:
I want to give time for people to weigh in about the script, those who have read it for the challenge as well as anyone else who has read the script in the past. I'll update this post with my thoughts on the script later.
What did you think of Crash?
For links to all 14 scripts in the challenge, go here.
And remember: We'll be reading 1 script per day and discussing them through November 22. I'll be posting something everyday at 4PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time / 1PM PST for your comments.
The script for Day 14 of the challenge is The Wild Bunch, available at myPDFscripts.com.
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Overall I loved the racial themes clashing and coliding throughout this script.
The Cameron character was great. I really liked him as the main protagoninst.
This script has some GREAT reversal plot points: p. 65-75; Ryan saves Chistine, after he early took advantage of her in a strip search, p. 106; Anthony realizes his stolen van is full of illegal aliens from China.
I didn't like the way Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco formatted car chase scenes.
And I didn't like the way they called out their secondary slug lines moving around Rick & Jeans Home (Brentwood) on pages 27 - 34 moving from room to room. Page 32 with shot heading callout of JEAN, DANIEL, JEAN, and RICK would have been better served by formating using direction -- in my opinion.
Scott, question for you off page 1 is FADE UP to find: a valid opening transtition. A wipe and fade at the same time. Is the way Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco formated it acceptable?
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
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