0 the text for a film, including the words to be spoken by the actors and instructions for the cameras -- 電影劇本
Each song suggests a fragment of a screenplay: an encounter, a missed opportunity, tall stories told through a haze of alcohol and smoke.
There's a vogue at the moment for saying good screenplays are not written but rewritten.
To expect otherwise is like expecting a screenplay to contain an adequate behind-the-scenes narrative of the making of the movie.
He needs to pay an accountant to draw up a budget once the screenplay is written so that the cost will be known.
It may have been specially commissioned but could still be described as incidental to the screenplay.
A broadcast of a copyright film may not, since this would infringe the copyright in the film, the screenplay and the music.
There may be another screenplay writer and then finally there is a director.
Nor should a speculative venture where for example someone has spent time producing a screenplay without any commission.
