How much is too much body language!

  • May 19, 2009 7:16 PM PDT

     


    hey, everybody, I've recently been flustered with the fact that I tend, because i feel Body language says more than spoken words, to put a lot of body language in my scripts everytime i go through a long or short sequence of dialogue in a particular scene. The problem is a lot of industry people claim that A "GOOD" read should keep this body language to a minimum. It made sense, although I had my doubts because i don't like my characters talking their way out of situations. Anyway, I've read other scripts trying to confirm my theory, one of those that truly caught my eye was "slumdog millionaire". It contains lots of large blocks of scene description and body language, and it still seems to keep the story going forward, besides it won an OSCAR! So my question is, who's right?