Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Janus Films, which made David and Lisa, gathered the usual cast of unknowns, only with much less success. Tom Aldredge, playing the inept yokel who gets his hand stuck in a Henry Moore statue, takes an overdose of slapstick. Ted Flicker and Buck Henry, the script-writers, preserve the tradition of amateur movies by taking on about five major roles apiece. Neither can act, however. Godfrey Cambridge provides some saving grace as the fire inspector, but then he speaks only ten lines...
...idea, it seems, is that since drama is a matter of action, actors should practice not particular lines and crossings, but complete "doings." If, for example, the script calls for a search, the actor should improvise, hunting for whatever he wants to, until he becomes sufficiently involved in the action. Eventually, this should train the actor to concentrate, and to control his movements and voice by controlling his attitudes...
Perhaps your best bet is to follow the heroine's example. Stop worrying and just be absorbed by the bizarre plot, the magic music and camera work, the incantatory script, and Riva's big, hypnotic eyes...
...Knapp, Inc., through a series of cliffhanging adventures and crises. Somehow he has managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...
Near the end of Nobody Waved Goodbye, Julie tells Peter that she is pregnant. (The director, in secret, told her to spring it on him. Peter, the actor, had no idea a baby was in the script--no idea, in fact how the movie was supposed to end.) He grins, disbelieving, confused, a little silly, "You're kiddin' me." No shock, no despair, no emotional fireworks. It's a beautiful moment. Real...