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Other refinements abound. "There's no way in 1974 we could give a black man the precise dialogue Twain gave him," commented co-Scenarist Richard Sherman. "First of all, nobody in the audience would understand him if he used the stereotypical dialogue-'Ah's gwine down de ribah'-so we had to handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving...
Lester has taken the tone of The Three Musketeers from Scenarist Fraser, whose Flashman novels Lester once tried to adapt. The Fraser books are full of the kind of self-deflating braggadocio, the same sort of elaborate but inglorious combats one finds here. Heroics are mocked, survival is championed. The musketeers are made into creatures whose absurdities of conduct, florid codes of honor and hollow protestations of heroism make them all the more recognizable and human. It is their own faint absurdity that makes them true...
...Director-Scenarist Krzysztof Zanussi renews his well-worn theme-the search for direction and identity-through a superbly tempered style and sheer force of feeling. His hero (Stanislaw Latallo) is a student of science who is baffled and intimidated by the intricacies of the natural order, stalled by doubt and fear of the mysteries that not only surround him but drive...
Died. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, 80, durable and witty cinema scenarist and playwright; of heart failure; in Manhattan. Behrman's first play, The Second Man (1927), an overnight hit, was an urbane comedy like many of his later works (Rain from Heaven, Wine of Choice). No Time for Comedy (1939), the story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman...
Died. William Inge, 60, playwright and scenarist; by his own hand (of carbon-monoxide poisoning); in Hollywood Hills, Calif. In 1945 a Chicago production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie inspired Inge, then a St. Louis drama critic, to give up reviewing plays and start writing them...