Hanna (screenplay) -- fast read

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Randall_Oelerich

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Started reading Hanna this morning, half way through. Fast read. Pulled me in from page one. I attached the PDF screenplay for anybody interested. I have not yet seen the film, in my netflix queue. For educational purposes only of course.
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Took a quick look at the opening paragraph and read "forest floor." Sure they are using consonance but my English teacher would have my hide if I called anything outdoors floor instead of ground. Funny how English teachers stick in your head that way.
 
Charli said:
Took a quick look at the opening paragraph and read "forest floor." Sure they are using consonance but my English teacher would have my hide if I called anything outdoors floor instead of ground. Funny how English teachers stick in your head that way.
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Actually I've heard many references to "forest floor" over the years. I would rather someone wrote "forest floor" than "forest ground". The dead leaves had accumulated on the forest floor. The dead leaves had accumulated on the forest ground. Take out the word forest and then ground would sound fine but somehow I actually like the sound of "forest floor".

Side note: I downloaded the script and read it through. I'd heard about this script for a while, so thanks for posting it Randall!
 
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Charli said:
Took a quick look at the opening paragraph and read "forest floor." Sure they are using consonance but my English teacher would have my hide if I called anything outdoors floor instead of ground...
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We say 'forest floor' up here in Minnesota; never would we say 'forest ground'. The script appears to be British, I noticed several words and phrases peculiar to Britain/Europe, e.g. the use of the word 'torch' instead of 'flashlight'.
 
Randall_Oelerich said:
We say 'forest floor' up here in Minnesota; never would we say 'forest ground'. The script appears to be British, I noticed several words and phrases peculiar to Britain/Europe, e.g. the use of the word 'torch' instead of 'flashlight'.
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I don't know, in my So. Cal idiomatic speech 'forest floor' is standard... something like 'forest ground' would sound funny.

On the other hand 'torch' would only mean something burning at the top of some sort of holding device, like a stick or bunch of sticks...
 
Charli said:
Took a quick look at the opening paragraph and read "forest floor." Sure they are using consonance but my English teacher would have my hide if I called anything outdoors floor instead of ground. Funny how English teachers stick in your head that way.
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Try as hard as possible to unlearn all 'rules' made by English Teachers, since English Teachers will not be reading your scripts with an eye for making a movie, and it is more important to communicate a picture to the movie maker reader, than worrying about certain 'rules'...

doctores linguae anglicae delendi sunt
 
I think using 'floor' is related to the forest, or ocean being something 'separate' and self contained. Like a room.

Like how we are IN a building, but ON the 2nd floor.
If anyone speaks German, I think there is a similar theory when discussing location in the German language.
 
yrpfilms said:
I think using 'floor' is related to the forest, or ocean being something 'separate' and self contained. Like a room.

Like how we are IN a building, but ON the 2nd floor.
If anyone speaks German, I think there is a similar theory when discussing location in the German language.
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I'm pretty sure all human languages have a process of abstraction, where in 'root' words have their meaning expanded to physical or non-physical and situations that do not directly relate to the original root meaning.

So, one has in electronics 'noise floor'... the lowest level that a circuit produces that consists entirely of 'mud'... yet another abstraction...

Hence one can speak of a marraige bed, bedrock, or the bedrock of a marriage...
 
yrpfilms said:
I think using 'floor' is related to the forest, or ocean being something 'separate' and self contained. Like a room.

Like how we are IN a building, but ON the 2nd floor.
If anyone speaks German, I think there is a similar theory when discussing location in the German language.
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Yeah, but modern English despite its germanic origions, doesn't usually construct, 'Fred lives in Friedrick's Street'... but rather 'on Friedrick's Street'... the construction 'lives in the street' conjures up someone who is destitute and does in fact live 'in the street... or at least on the curb if it is a modern setting...
 
Finished Hanna this morning (I do have a day job, so took a couple of sessions to read it). Well written chase/action scenes; I feel the concept really helped sell this script. And if you think about it, it is a story told before but with a twist; variation in a way of the Bourne Identity, Nikita, Species, etc. Kudos to the writer. Always useful to think of varying the protag, etc.-- make the detective a girl and you have Nancy Drew; an old woman and you have Murder She Wrote, a bumbling fool and you have The Pink Panther, etc.
 
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