Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room--they cleave to them as another form of expression or substitute for personality. But the framing technique merely uses objects as convenient visual elements. And although close-ups coerce the attention better than any stake device, they imply a kind of psychological familiarity with the characters which the script doesn't provide. Close-ups do magnify Pleasence's incredible range of facial contortions. But a collective stage view served Pinter's ends better...
Blue Eyes v. Blue Jowls. His campaign was managed by Robert Finch, Dick Nixon's old stage director. And the winning script was simple enough: be bland, be affable, offend no one by taking controversial stands, and never let anyone forget that Salinger was a carpetbagging resident of Virginia when he entered the campaign. To please the right wing, Murphy endorsed Goldwater; to please the moderates, he constantly referred to his differences with Barry on the civil rights bill and foreign aid cuts. Murphy's blue-eyed good looks contrasted jarringly with Pierre's blue-jowled appearance...
...Late September, That Winter), wrote a pilot film for a TV series that would have premiered this fall. He failed miserably, but he has bounced back. He has just published a nonfiction, names-naming chronicle of his experience called Only You, Dick Daring! or How to Write One Television Script and Make...
What really does this film in is its godawful script. At one point, the lovers find themselves in a motel room. An unsavory relationship is being loudly consummated in the neighboring cabin, and Miss Hugueny gets upset. "Aren't you going to get a bottle? Isn't that what they do now?" she screams. "You think I'm a whore!" "You said it, I didn't," Fonda replies stupidly, and gets justifiably slapped. Latter, she asks tentatively, "What if I were pregnant?" and Fonda answers, "Get serious." What sensitivity...
Bradbury wrote the excellent script of John Huston's movie version of Moby Dick; and his novel Dandelion Wine was a firm, straightforward remembrance of a youth in Illinois. His science fiction, however, has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of entering. Ingmar Bergman corresponds with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck...