Hollywood is good, but nothing like C in speed, syntax or efficiency. And while it may run fast on ghz level machines, it's painfully slow on classics so it depends on what platform he is targetting.
He was asking about 3.x and 020, so I'm guessing A1200. In which case, for the love of God, don't use "multimedia" languages! Actually, I'd just go with 68k assembler, as insanely high-level as it is, but C would definitely be a better choice than library-oriented scripting languages.
