Watching the movie while reading the screenplay.
This is my film school.
Or procrastination.
What I'm struck by is how sparse the film is--even though the script is stripped down to bare bones, about half of the dialogue is missing. Somewhere along the process, they decided to allow silence to fill the frame.
"I have time. I have time. I have time..." this is what my acting teacher, Howard Fine, used to say. It's easy to feel awkward in silence in real life, but the tension that builds from this feeling is powerful. That's how the romantic connection is built between Drive & Irene, and generally how Driver deals with people.
The momentum from the script is translated onto the screen, as well as the tone, and I'm beginning to learn that's the most important part: capturing the tone.
That said, I do love me a good dialogue-heavy script, some old school snappy humor, but this is intriguing and is giving me an idea for a story where a guy's neighbor is killed on accident: they meant to kill him.
That's all I've got for now, but I know I'm gonna listen to this soundtrack this week while I ... drive.