Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walking Back. This was a calculated attempt to embarrass King, who according to the script, was supposed to turn back only because he had been confronted by adamant police power. But King
Outrageous Demands. Silver Lance is the creation of Marine Lieut. General Victor H. Krulak, 52, a toughened specialist in guerrilla and counterinsurgency warfare. Krulak and his staff began planning the exercises in September, finished with a four-inch-thick "script" that covered the histories of the make-believe countries, the developing political situations there, and the events that led to the Lancelotians' request for U.S. military aid. Also in the script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native...
...those eccentric biddies that you hate to sit next to on a plane. She is-well, a person. A real person. Back at the hotel several scenes later, their hands touch to the accompaniment of violins and a timely phone call. "I'm downstairs," snaps the widow. The script holds no further surprises...
...characters she plays is not entirely an act of will. She may begin by interpreting them, but she winds up substituting herself for them, and in the end their adventures are quite literally her own. Is it she who becomes the character, or the character who emerges from the script to become her? -she does not know. But she cannot bear to see most of the films she has made; they force upon her too dramatic a confrontation with her own past. "The love, suffering and happiness I experience in life appear in my movies," she says. "When...
Having mastered her own craft, Moreau now prefers to become engaged with her films without dwelling much on their significance. "One should never search for meaning in a script," she says. "When the work is over, the meaning comes out by itself." With her maquilleuse, Simone Knapp, she studies her script for makeup, hairdos and costume changes; the two of them have worked together so long that they can plan a whole film in 45 minutes. Then she reads over her lines to get the drift of things and puts her script aside until the shooting starts. The wait invariably...