Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clad in open-necked suntans and Army clodhoppers, with Harkins always at his side, the poker-faced McNamara would begin by hearing from the local Vietnamese commander, then he would sit down before the U.S. detachment, firing incisive questions and scribbling notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad. At Hue, where the whole uproar began when government troops killed nine Buddhist demonstrators, the Defense Secretary listened to a half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles...
...this has the warm endorsement of the National Education Association -and that may be part of the trouble. Each script gets a critical reading by N.E.A. members around the country. They want "the perfect image of the perfect teacher," says Executive Producer E. Jack Neuman, who at the same time has to satisfy TV's standard formulas. The result so far is neither strong drama nor strong documentary -but maybe it's progress...
Orson Welles does a magnificent takeoff on Orson Welles. In short, thanks partly to a couple of big fat camera hogs and partly to a tidy script by Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, The V.I.P.s is on the whole an entertaining film. The poor, that is to say, should find it entertaining; the rich may find it less than flattering. Director Anthony Asquith seems to agree with the fellow who remarked: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he has given...
...much less arouse our sympathy. Ballochet, the stock bespectacled "intellectual" who worships the Corporal, is abysmally parodied by Claude Rich, who marches forth to death like those two poor souls in the opening of Stalag 17. Claude Brasseur's part as another crony is never clearly defined in the script, and the actor avails himself of the consequent opportunity to draw pay for doing nothing...
Harvard stars are reported unsatisfied with the script, however, and may attempt a few unauthorized alterations, according to some sources. At present, the Crimson does not plan to deviate from its usual practice of black-and-white artistry...