By Dr. Craig D. Reid As an award winning screenwriter as well as a filmmaker, I’ve learned how difficult it can be for the final draft of the screenplay to be anything like the screenwriter’s original story and vision, so I’m more sympathetic to the screenwriting knowing that as is common, too many cooks spoil […]
Archives for July 2010
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE: CAGE THE POWER IN THE NIC OF TIME
By Dr. Craig D. Reid When I was living in Los Angeles, from 2000 to 2006, I was an entertainment reporter for Reuters of Asia then for Reuters’ LA Bureau. The cool thing about this is that I was able to interview just about anyone in the film industry. One such interview was with […]
PREDATORS: PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION SCIENCE IN CINEMA
By Dr. Craig D. Reid When Schwarzenegger’s Predator (1987) came out I was a PhD graduate student at the University of Illinois taking Entomology 319, Insect Pest Management, a legendary class taught by the late former head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Robert L. Metcalf. We just so happened to be studying predator-prey interactions […]