The Mad Schemes of Dr. Tectonic

I was way with you. The script wasn't really the gold in creating this film, especially given last year's screenwriting competition. (It should've gone to Finding Nemo, I thought...) And, most of the script was Bill Murray, who delivered a far more impressive performance, in its subtlety and nuance than did Sean Penn (the winner that year for Mystic River. Not that that was *bad* by any stretch, but, just much more um, Academy-obvious). The reason the film was any good was the truth the actors (Johannsen and Murray) brought to what was dangerously close to what I felt was an overly pretentious script, they salvaged the words, and admittedly, Coppola's visuals did provide the dead-on setting and feel.