The Burning Plain: The Shooting Script - Couverture souple

Arriaga, Guillermo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1557048266 ISBN 13 : 9781557048264

Editeur : Newmarket Press, 2009

Synopsis

A trailer home burns in the middle of an isolated desert. Something has happened inside...something that will haunt many over the coming years.

From acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga comes a multilayered drama in which six people separated by time and space discover that the past and the present have a curious way of affecting them: Mariana and Santiago, teenagers in a small New Mexico town, attempt to understand through forbidden love the mystery of the tragic end of Mariana's mother and Santiago's father; Sylvia, a troubled woman living in Portland, undertakes an emotional odyssey to resolve a sin from her past; Gina and Nick grapple with their intense, clandestine affair in the New Mexico desert; and Maria, a young Mexican girl, helps her mother find forgiveness and love.

The story of The Burning Plain explores many themes that are constant throughout the work of Guillermo Arriaga: the weight that the dead exert over the living; the paradoxical nature of love; alienated characters in search of identity; and people with physical and emotional scars who come from the dark extremes of life with the hope of finding redemption.

"The structure of The Burning Plain," says Arriaga,"differs from other films I have written in the sense that this is only one story, but told through different time frames. We watch the characters for a period of around twelve years. I wanted to create a story of connections and consequences. What a character does one day has repercussions another day many years later."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Guillermo Arriaga is well known for his screenplays Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, as well as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. He is also author of the novels The Guillotine Squad, A Sweet Scent of Death, and The Night Buffalo and of the short story collection Retorno 201.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A trailer home burns in the middle of an isolated desert. Something has happened inside...something that will haunt many over the coming years.

From acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga comes a multilayered drama in which six people separated by time and space discover that the past and the present have a curious way of affecting them: Mariana and Santiago, teenagers in a small New Mexico town, attempt to understand through forbidden love the mystery of the tragic end of Mariana's mother and Santiago's father; Sylvia, a troubled woman living in Portland, undertakes an emotional odyssey to resolve a sin from her past; Gina and Nick grapple with their intense, clandestine affair in the New Mexico desert; and Maria, a young Mexican girl, helps her mother find forgiveness and love.

The story of The Burning Plain explores many themes that are constant throughout the work of Guillermo Arriaga: the weight that the dead exert over the living; the paradoxical nature of love; alienated characters in search of identity; and people with physical and emotional scars who come from the dark extremes of life with the hope of finding redemption.

"The structure of The Burning Plain," says Arriaga,"differs from other films I have written in the sense that this is only one story, but told through different time frames. We watch the characters for a period of around twelve years. I wanted to create a story of connections and consequences. What a character does one day has repercussions another day many years later."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Newmarket Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1557048266
• ISBN 13: 9781557048264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible