Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pictorially, The Daisies is brilliantly audacious; nearly every moment is overlaid with iridescence and dazzling color combinations. In subject, unfortunately, it is little more than another of Dada's precocious offspring. The leaden symbolism of the girls snipping pickles, sausages and bananas is only one example of a script that has all the consistency of an amateur happening. Director Věra Chytilová views her film as social commentary: "A necrologue about a negative way of life." The Daisies' nose-thumbing dedication-"To all those whose indignation is limited to a smashed-up salad"-suggests that...
...playful aplomb, breezed through the retakes without missing a cue. Congratulated by Producer George Sherman, Ben merely grunted and slurped down a can of sardines-just as any 7ft.-long, 650-lb. black bear would do after a hard day on the set. Says Sherman: "You look at the script and say 'a bear can't do those things. It's got to be a guy in a bear suit.' But it is a bear, and it's working...
...species are stroked on their "affection zones" with long, sponge-tipped "petting sticks," which are gradually reduced in length until an attendant can, for instance, tickle the thorax of a tarantula with his fingers. In "secondary school," the animals are put through an obstacle course in preparation for such script demands as having monkeys cross a chasm using a python as a bridge. For fight scenes, the critters simply wrestle playfully, and the battle noises are dubbed in later; some of the big cats are so tame that they have to be given snarling lessons...
Granted a suggestive script and an informed production, the inherent social force of the theatre can evoke aspects of men and societies for which the Relevant Issues are only images. But they cannot lure an audience whose cries of "Beat me, Beat me" are ushering in an era of dramatic Social Significance which promises to outstrip the thirties. Nevertheless (although perhaps unhappily), this siren song of the Relevant can be as useful to artists as it is currently seductive to audiences...
...though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...