Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed by Peter Ustinov-who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles-into a vividly affecting film...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
...problem is not so much that Bissell reproduces verbatim his Freshman diary, his conversations with his son, his reasons for majoring in anthropology as an undergraduate, and his favorite recipe for Harvard beets. And one really can't blame him for mentioning on innumerable occasions that he wrote the script for the Pajama Game; it really was a fine show. The problem is that Bissell's prose style is lousy...
...easy to discount these weaknesses. Chris and Bitte Rawson's new translation gives a solid idiomatic script that never sounds awkward. Stephen Tucker has designed a brilliant, extremely compact set: the costumes and music are admirable. Babe has directed a Ghost Sonata that is a capable and striking rendition of Strindberg's fantasies and obsessions...