Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This plot might have made an enjoyable, if not plausible, melodrama. But the film's ludicrous script turns the plot into a parody of itself. The President pleads with Russia's Premier for "Peace Through Understanding" and the Professor tells the chief of staff to strike while the U.S. has the advantage. Meanwhile, everyone draws a long face because man has let machines take over his destiny and isn't it awful that we might go to war when no one wants to, except the professor...
Director Lumet, cursed with a terrible script, compounds his misfortune with unimaginative photography. With one shot of a B-52 flying low over its target, Stanley Kubrick represents the conflict of a desire for victory and a fear of destruction more effectively than does all of Fail Safe. But Lument's camera work, instead of adding to Fail Safe's statement, merely wears out the viewer with its monotonous tension. He uses all the standard melodramatic shots, close-ups of sweating brows and tight lips, prolonged views of radar screens and bug-eyed pilots in oxygen masks. This technique...
Nutty, Naughty-Château is a house divided between Director Roger Vadim and Novelist Françoise Sagan. On the framework of Sagan's first play, Château in Sweden, which enjoyed a long run in Paris, Vadim and an associate script carpenter have slapped together a film comedy that deserves to be condemned, and probably will be. It is synthetic, flimsy and obvious. Yet through the cracks in the walls one can still glimpse the work of a wry, precocious playwright who knows how to make decadence amusing...
...Anger, is just right as the hero. Bart's music is beautifully done-"edging towards ballad-opera," as the Times put it-and full of the rhythms and sounds he picks up by wandering the streets with a tape recorder. The book by Alun Owen, who wrote the script of A Hard Day's Night for Liverpool's own Beatles, is a masterwork in Merseyside accents that could stand as a straight play...
...tyke. Inside the classy tweeds lives a Mick Micawber who can't keep a job, can't feed his family, can't face the comitragic truth about himself. In his careful and intelligent novel, a bestseller in 1960, and now again in the careful and intelligent script he has written for this film, Author Brian Moore describes with horror, humor and humanity what happens when a middle-aged child wraps his lip around the lollipop of life and finds that it has turned into a stone...