The Changeling

[Triggy]

I was just watching the film The Changeling last night and thought it was very enjoyable and very well structured (it's about a 1928 woman who has her son go missing then gets him back but believes that the returned child is not her son...)

Anyway, what grabbed my attention at the end was that the writer was none other than J. Michael Strazyncki! Now, I think he's an excellent writer but this didn't have his feel at all. The dialogue was sharp and in period but more to the point, his JMSisms that you are so familiar with (and indeed "make" B5) were absent, without seeing the credits for myself I just wouldn't have believed it was him. This is meant to be a big complement to the guy as it's very difficult to switch genres so seamlessly and he did a great job with the film.

If you haven't seen it, go see the film, it's excellent.

 

[Greg Smith]

It is very good. It is about as far removed from B5 as you can get.

The script was nominated for a Bafta.

 

[H]

maybe it's a result of the therapy after he wrote Legends of the rangers. . .

 

[Lorcan Nagle]

I thought it was very JMS actually - the line at the start about not starting a fight but always finishing one was attributed to Sheridan's Dad, and thematically the asylum sequences and the whole part about blackening her name had a lot in common with the nightwatch plot and the mindgames played on Sheridan when he was captured.

 

[Triggy]

Yeah, the never starting a fight stuff resonated but the room thing was much more 1984 in my mind than Intersections In Real Time. My biggest point is that the never starting a fight line aside, it was a versatile script that was mostly outside of his appararent comfort zone.

 

[Target]

You mean he didn't try to put techno mages in it. The one thing that annoyed about B5 was Techno mages & thieves guild crap in crusade. Fantasy should stay out sci fi.
I've looked at changling but never sure if was going to be good. If i rent & it's bad i'll blame you triggy
It will make a change as my friends think i choose the worse movies.

 

[lastbesthope]

I'd like to see this, JMS written, Eastwood directed means it is at least worth a look.

LBH