Yesterday, I read the screenplay for and then watched DALLAS BUYERS CLUB. The screenplay is good, but the performances are better: Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto certainly deserve their Oscar nominations. To me, in terms of the craft of writing, the most interesting issue was how to make Matthew McConaugheys character of Ron, who is homophobic and generally unpleasant, into someone we should root for. He has a classic Save the Cat moment early on when he insists a doctor be called for a worker whose leg has been mangled despite the fact that the man is an illegal -- others were going to just stand around and let him bleed to death. Of course, in biographical pictures (as this one is), you sometimes gotta say, yeah, well, thats the way the person really was. Except, thing, is the real Ron Woodroof wasnt as portrayed in the film -- and the characters of Rayon (played by Jared Leto) and Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner) are fictitious. Heres a very interesting reading of whats arguably reprehensible in the choices the screenwriters made presumably to make Ron embraceable (I chose that word advisedly) by a mainstream audience: cinemablend/new/Your-Consideration-Dallas-Buyers-Club-Isn-t-Progressive-It-Pretends-41773.html
Posted on: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:52:13 +0000
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