Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original script of Spring Awakening, written by the German playwright Franz Wedekind, is a brilliant presentation of adolescent sexuality and societal oppression which is at once melodramatic, satirical and tragic. Director Paul Warner's sensitivity to both the theatrical and human dimensions of the script is reflected, at times brilliantly, in his adaptation of the play for Harvard Summer Theatre...
...subject of the dialogue is sex. Each scene is replete with suggestive gestures and glances; a strained argument between Melchior's parents becomes an almost threatening seduction scene. Eroticism quickly becomes a constant in the play. As a result, the overtly sexual scenes, often shocking and brutal in the script, appear almost cathartic on stage. Sexual suggestion appears as perversity and repression in contrast to a starkly honest masturbation scene...
...fine script and excellent potpourri of supporting actors round off this special movie. Bert Young appears as a rotund godfather type figure, who revels in good pasta and his small network of not-so-efficient hoods...
...teacher at New York City's New School, spent three years in research and interviews amassing the minute data of Agee's life. From the age of 18 on, Bergreen assures us, Agee had fairly set work habits and style. He wrote late at night in tiny script with newly sharpened pencils, chain smoking, sipping gin, listening to jazz. Agee did not know the meaning of a throwaway line. Even when he wrote prose, he tended to operate by the laws of a romantic poet-packing in all the vivid details, then going for broke...
Agee suffered his first heart attack in 1951 after playing tennis with John Huston while at work on the script of The African Queen. It was too late for a prince of excess to slow down. He went on spinning out great ideas for the future, as he always had. At one time, a partial list of projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short...