| Shallow Grave 1. IntroductionIn the following extract, the scriptwriter John Hodge explains how Shallow Grave started. Insert the correct missing words into the gaps.| hand | bag | envelopes | lie | idea | leads | relationship | flat | time | script |
I had this ____ about three people in a ____ and a stranger and a ____of money and it seemed to me like a film, so I began writing. With a view to an end-of-career auction, the first draft was _______-written on table napkins, backs of _________, etc. I showed it to my sister who introduced me to a guy called Andrew McDonald who said he was a 'producer'. This was a lie. He told me he had worked in Hollywood as a ______ editor. This was a lie. He told me he had met Bridget Fonda; that he knew Bridget Fonda well, and implied, more or less, that he had enjoyed a tabloid celebrity-style on-off ________ with Bridget Fonda for several years and that it was only a matter of _____ before I saw her on the cover of 'Hello!' magazine under the headline 'Coping without Andrew: Bridget Fonda's Inner Strength'. He assured me that she would star in the film, along with Ray Liotta and Bill Murray (the two male _____ I had in mind). Need I say that this was all one big _____?In pairs, think about possible plots for the film. To help you, here are the first words spoken in the film :Take trust, for instance, or friendship : these are the important things in life,
these are the things that matter, that help you on your way.
If you can't trust your friends, well, what then?
If you can't trust your friendsThe photo (above) shows the main characters: (left to right : Alex, Juliet, David). The three of them share a flat together in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Can you tell what kind of people they are from the way they look? Is it possible to say what they do for a living?
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