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Enter a writer's mind......,
By SNK "wordfish" (PGH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ernest Hemingway's After the Storm: The Story plus the Screenplay and a Commentary (Paperback)
A. E. Hotchner allows the reader into his process. This is a terrific book for would-be writers, working, but stuck writers and you needn't be a Hemingway fan.
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Somewhat entertaining, but little substance,
By Craig Childs (Cordova, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ernest Hemingway's After the Storm: The Story plus the Screenplay and a Commentary (Paperback)
This book presents the screenplay for the recent television movie "After the Storm" and the six-page Ernest Hemingway short story on which it was loosely based. The adapter A. E. Hochner also throws in an informative essay on the art of adapting. While this will certainly interest would-be playwrights and Hemingway afficionados, there is little else of substance here.The short story is little more than a premise--a poor Bahamian fisherman finds a sunken luxury yacht and tries unsuccessfully to scavenge it-with no supporting characters and an unsatisfactory resolution. Hochner adds villians, conspiracies, and two love triangles to spice things up. The result is a better-than-average TV movie, due to solid performances by Benjamin Bratt and Armand Assante, but it is still too slow and formulaic to meet the standards of a feature film. |
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Ernest Hemingway's After the Storm: The Story plus the Screenplay and a Commentary by A. E. Hotchner (Paperback - April 27, 2001)
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