Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...
...than 650 of her poems were published for the first time. They are wonderful: some of them are as good as her best. On an old scrap of paper (not large enough, so she had to write around the edges), in her curious hand writing, half-print and half-script, she noted...
...have been in Frankfurt before, but covering it almost end to end today I found no single landmark I recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing but a mocking epitaph." (See FOREIGN NEWS...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
Said he: "No one will believe me when I tell this. . . . I'll be called a sucker who fell for another corny script...