There's a reason for it: it's designed so that a page of text translates to more or less one minute of screen time, so you can get a reliable estimate of how lo

There's a reason for it: it's designed so that a page of text translates to more or less one minute of screen time, so you can get a reliable estimate of how long the movie will run by looking at the page count. (Source: I took a screenwriting class when I was living in LA. If you live in LA long enough and you don't write a screenplay they kick you out.) (Here is the screenplay I wrote, in case anyone is interested: http://flownet.com/ron/control.pdf http://flownet.com/ron/control.pdf)