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Other producers have reached the same conclusion. Killings continue, but when possible they take place with a "less violent" weapon. In one episode of NBC's The Outsider, the script called for the hero to be threatened with a shotgun; the censor suggested a meat cleaver be substituted, apparently figuring quieter weapons are less violent...
...Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed her dad before she kissed David. Then it was off south for Christmas with her parents at Key Biscayne and a short secret honeymoon (most likely in the Bahamas) before the youngsters head back to Smith and Amherst to take up their studies...
...LION IN WINTER is not a film; it's a filmed play. So was A Man For All Seasons, but there the adopted medium was at worst unobtrusive, and at best working dextrously for the fine script. The script of Lion in Winter rarely ventures outside the pretentious except to become ludicrous. And the film medium actually works against the script, making explicit the faults which, on a stage, could have remained vague...
James Goldman, who adapted the screenplay from his own fairly successful Broadway script, must've had it in for Katharine Hepburn. She's forced through lines like "Of course he has a knife, we all have knives. It's 1183--we're barbarians." "Hush dear, mother's fighting." She makes it through such embarrassments by playing Katharine Hepburn, adding her wry little smile to some lines ("Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?") and telegraphing strong emotion by quivering...
...mission we've been wondering about for two hours is a model of well-written exposition, neatly paced and satisfying to all. Other crucial plot points crumble in treatment: the obligatory submarine flooding scene is telegraphed too early by deliberately distracting conversational small-talk injected suddenly into a script previously given over to cut-and-dried function. More irritating, 90 percent of the mechanics involving a crucial roll of film (and far be it for me to spoil) everything by telling you what's on it!) are fuzzy and contrived, particularly after the clarity of the previous exposition...