Book description
The official screenplay book tie-in to the hit thriller from Warner Bros., starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack, and written and directed by Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy).
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of…
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I would rather (re)read this script than most contemporary thrillers. It feels like a novel, and the dialogue is masterful, but one of the most affecting scenes contains just 37 spoken words over three pages. It’s the murder of Arthur Edens, a brilliant and manic-depressive attorney.
He’s leaving his Tribeca loft when two slick corporate assassins appear. The killers are incredibly competent, but there’s nothing cool or sexy about them or the killing, which is a study in detached corporate efficiency. They’ve clearly done this a hundred times, there’s protocol to follow, and this untraceable murder is all in a…
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