![]() But I'm a two-bit hack, so I won't point it out.:)īut the point is moot, since this bit was removed at some later time - the camera never breaks from a closeup of Amy, and she doesn't give enough time between lines to cut to a closeup of Grace without evoking memories of that other LAPD-based show (Dragnet) and its use of a series of quickly-switched-between closeups for dialogue-heavy scenes.ĪMY: You think I'm a rigid, pencil-pushing bureaucrat. Were I a better writer, I'd likely be warranted in pointing out that the subtle difference between "pissed off because Amy is right" (as it was meant) and "pissed off because she thinks Amy is a bitch" (as the audience was likely to take it - since Amy's been doing a great impersonation of a bitch up until this point) is very hard for an actress to convey. Grace turns her gaze back to the street, even more pissed off because Amy is right. But the guy we're going to see will hear us coming, disappear, and it'll take another couple hours to find him again. GRACE: See that button on the dash marked siren? That means we can go faster than the speed limit - I read that in the rule book.ĪMY: If I turn on the siren and floor it, you'll feel a lot better. or are we going to coast all the way there?īeing a good driver, I suppose, Amy didn't give a look. GRACE: Do you need some help finding the gas pedal. Grace glances at the speedometer then glares at Amy. Good thing use of reverse gear never comes up in the scene, else the cameraman would need to be tied across the hood so he could get a shot while she backed up.)Īmy is behind the wheel as they drive through the BAD SIDE OF TOWN. (*Where, rather amusingly, you can see Amy's reflection in the rear-view mirror, making it rather obvious to physics students that she's completely blind to anything behind her because all she would see in the mirror was the camera. There's three main angles (all shot from the back seat of the van where the scene takes place, BTW) - one where you can see both Amy and Grace*, a closeup of Amy* and a closeup of Grace. Use of closeups is rather important as well. The text is ripped right out of the file linked above, with only some minor editing to fit it into this page's format.įirst off, the dialogue is slightly different, but it's only a few incidental dropped words, added "Well."s and stuff like that. So, contained below, is something I "borrowed" from the script Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin wrote for "Sammo Blammo". Which, for the hell of it, I'm going to point out. I noticed, when reading the script after watching the show, that there was some subtle differences between the script and the final product. Now, I don't know if these scripts were edited after the show was produced (beyond a couple of "OMITTED" lines), but I'm going to make the (possibly dangerous) assumption that Lee Goldberg has as much editorial integrity as I do, and doesn't change things later to make himself look better, a la 1984. Martial arts and high explosives.:)īut on to the point: One problem with the early episodes of season two of Martial Law was that Amy Dylan and Grace Chen (played by Gretchen Egolf and Kelly Hu, respectively) spent enough time sniping at each other that you were half-expecting a catfight to break out.Īs sexually entertaining as some members of the audience would find that, that is a bad thing. ![]() There's several Martial Law ones, including one for the episode TNN ran last night, "Sammo Blammo". Okay, so I'm at Lee Goldberg's site and I find he's put up some of his scripts and stuff for download. Len's Lack-of-Sleep Litanies are now on a different page from The Egolf Chronicles. Future installments of The Egolf Chronicles and Len's Lack-of-Sleep Litanies will be put on their own page.įourth off, there's been a shakedown as of right now (OctoAD). Third off, this page isn't being updated anymore as of right now (AugAD), except for corrections. ![]() Because of that, be warned that all dates listed are the date the text was originally written, and that it likely got badly abused over the next week or two as I saw fit. Second off, as I write this paragraph (at 1:00 AM on JAD) I find I'm doing a lot of heavy re-editing. But there's a situation here that just requires use of those words. If you're offended by that, well, it's too late. Not just my old-guard favored cusses, but also "bitch" and "pissed off". The Realm of The Archon - Dark Catharsis Cat(harsis) fight! Cat(harsis) fight!įirst off, I do use cuss words in here.
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