The contemporary stylistic conventions include few to no camera shots or directing jargon, some but not a lot of writer commentary on the action, break up scene description into more readable paragraphs, and so forth. The subtext of which for those writing a spec script: We’d be unwise to write with this approach to screenplay style. Basically, they can do anything they want. Since there are obvious changes between the action in the script and the movie version of the opening, this is likely not a production draft, but still, when a director with the standing in the business such as Michael Mann is writing a script, they have enormous latitude in how they approach the format and style of that script. … this is not a spec script, this is a director’s draft. ![]() More common nowadays: Paragraphs three lines or less. It’s rare to see a screenplay with an eighteen-line paragraph of scene description, let alone the first paragraph. The script was written in 1995 and screenplay style has changed considerably since then.
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