It’s quite common for a screenwriter to be surprised, or even shocked, at just how different the finished film is from the script they wrote. Scenes have been moved, cut, altered by the set, the actors, the director, the editor, the sound, the music…Yet the script remains the reference point for making the film, running through it from start to finish. It is the film’s totem. But while the script “creates” the film, it does not lock it in place. On the contrary,