Dear Mr. Stitzel, In an interview in Entertainment Weekly, Screenwriter Tony Gilroy talked about how he is trained to BUTTON SCENES and ROUND THINGS OFF and with The Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton he didn't have to do that so much, and was pleased with the results. Since I can't ask him, I'm wondering if you might know what he means and if you agree? Thanks for your response.
Brad
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Dear Mr. Stitzel, In an interview in Entertainment Weekly, Screenwriter Tony Gilroy talked about how he is trained to BUTTON SCENES and ROUND THINGS OFF and with The Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton he didn't have to do that so much, and was pleased with the results. Since I can't ask him, I'm wondering if you might know what he means and if you agree? Thanks for your response.
Brad,
Since I wasn't there and writer's use different phrases with different meanings, it's difficult for me to be real certain what Mr. Gilroy was referring to. As I understand it "Rounding things off" means that each scene or the movie ends without having necessarily further questions as to the content or what might happen next to the characters. It presents things in nice, neat packages which, by the way, modern film goes resent. Like life, movies shouldn't end in these neat packages but leave things more open ended, like in life. I'm not sure what is meant by "button scenes". It's a new terminology to me.
Robert