The English Patient: A Screenplay [Paperback]

Anthony Minghella (Author), Michael Ondaatje (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Miramax; 1st edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078688245X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786882458
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Captures the power and poetry of the spellbinding novel., November 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The English Patient: A Screenplay (Paperback)

Anthony Minghella has created a superbly intelligent script based on a beautiful but lyrically difficult book. The script, in effect, excerpts the obsessive love affair buried among the many layers of the novel and makes it central to the movie without losing the poetical force of Ondaatje's language or the appeal of the well delineated characters. A more concise, yet equally powerful story retains the magical imagery, the sense of compassion, memory and loss that haunts its distant world and weaves its spell on the reader.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The English Patient spins a web of intricate character., April 10, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The English Patient: A Screenplay (Paperback)

In The English Patient, we have a story that is able to rend the heart and soothe the soul within a single passage. The book spins an intricate web both with its storyline and with the way we piece the characters together; each fragment fitting into its own place until we finally form a complete picture which brings new light to every element we have discovered before. It is that web which captivates the reader, forcing us to complete the whole picture before we are able to put the book down

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the screenplay, February 22, 2002

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Rhonda C. Elsaesser "jerseygirlinkentucky" (Fort Drum, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The English Patient: A Screenplay (Paperback)

If you love movies and writing than the screenplay is an interesting companion to the movie and book. Read along to the movie or figure out what a character really said, you can take this along with you anytime and enjoy the movie all over again. Filled with photos from the film and comments by Minghella, Zaentz, and Ondaatje, this is an excellent addition to your English Patient collection.