Not always... the William Holden character in SUNSET
BOULEVARD (1950) was always in voiceover. Wilder and
his writing partner (DAMNED if I can remember which
one off the top of my head) had started the original
screenplay at the morgue, with a couple of other
corpses telling their stories before Holden, but they
cut back to just the story of the screenwriter, victim
of Norma Desmond's vanity.
It CAN be done. It can even be done well. But it's
very, very rare.

Al B

BTW, how'd you like the draft?

--- Freon <freon@...> wrote:

> After waching VOLCANO (w/ Tommy Lee Jones) and
> comparing with DANTE'S PEAK (w/ Pierce Brosnan) -
> and
> now watching the David Lynch version of DUNE - I
> have
> a question.
>
> Is voice over mostly added after the screenplay is
> complete? In most of the stuff I have seen it seems
> like it's added as a remedial 'as-you-know-bob'
> effect
> on the second or third edit. Like they were told
> that
> the story's just too damn obscure without a
> voice-over.
>
> FWIW, VOLCANO was drowning in newsmedia voice-overs.
> Yuck. I would rather cut my wrists with a rake than
> write a screenplay like that.
>
>
> http://www.ascentstage.net
> http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/michiganfandom
>
>
> ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,FREON,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø
>
>
> "You're not wrong... Your words are just generally
> incompatible with consciousness and linguistic
> ability."
>
> ~me, with apologies to Marie-Laure Ryan
>
>




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