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Anyone see "The Words"?
Topic Started: Nov 18 2013, 03:57 PM (197 Views)
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Last night DH and I watched this all star movie on STARZ. DH really liked it and I thought it was pretty damn awful except for Jeremy Irons who I could watch all day....I thought he was a hoot (not supposed to be funny, but I felt this really good actor was as bored with the pretension and melodrama as I was).

Anyone else see it?
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Is this the one?

No, I haven't seen it at all. However Jeremy Irons, is a first class actor but I think his last few films leave a lot to be desired.
There also seems to be a bit of the deja vu element here as there have been allegations of plagiarism.

According to some Swiss newspapers, the plot of The Words is similar to that of the 2004 novel Lila Lila by Martin Suter (made into the German film Lila, Lila released in 2009), which is also about a young unsuccessful author who discovers an old manuscript, is pushed by his girlfriend into publishing it, becomes enormously successful, is later confronted by an old man who is (or in that case, knows) the original author, and then publishes a second book about how this all happened.
Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal say that they knew nothing of Suter, his work or Lila Lila. They had the idea and began writing The Words in 1999, years before Lila Lila was published. Together they attended the 2000 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab with their original screenplay.
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