Script To Screen: “The Limey”
A pivotal scene from the 1999 crime drama The Limey, written by Lem Dobbs.
A pivotal scene from the 1999 crime drama The Limey, written by Lem Dobbs.
Setup: An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter’s death.
The movie version of the scene:
The final version is essentially the same as the script with a few notable differences with dialogue. Why do you think they made those changes? If you have some thoughts, see you in comments.
One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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