Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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What is more, Bergman's work is all Bergman, and few film directors can make a similar claim. He creates his own pictures from the first line of the script to the last snip of the cutting shears, working with concentrated fury; in spring he customarily collapses in a Stockholm hospital, nurses an imaginary ulcer, and dictates two screen plays in about six weeks. Apart from his film work, Bergman has established himself as the top director of the Swedish stage by a long chalk, was recently named manager of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater. He also finds...
...wind up carefully." When not in a mood for dictating, he sits in an easy chair and writes with a broad-nibbed pen on yellow paper. When a scenario is finished, Bergman submits it to Carl Anders Dymling, SF's courtly and cultured boss. Sometimes Bergman rewrites a script three times before both are satisfied. But once the script is set, Dymling steps aside; he refuses to set foot on the set while Bergman is shooting. Then Bergman grimly pulls on the sailor's watch cap he wears in the studio and starts to shoot his film...
Kill, If Necessary. Bergman scorns "The Method" of coddling the actor's ego; instead, he hard-boils it. Once the day's work has begun, no performer may leave the set, not even to make a phone call. Not the slightest deviation from script is permitted. Björnstrand once begged Bergman to rewrite a line. "I can't interpret it," he protested. Bergman replied coldly, "It's your job to interpret it." No stand-ins are used, even when the action is dangerous. Moreover, Bergman permits no lengthy psychoanalytic discussions of motive; usually, he feels...
...William Wyler exposed 1,250,000 feet of celluloid.) When a picture is finished. Bergman cuts it ruthlessly, taking his motto from William Faulkner: "Kill all your darlings!" When they are all dead, Bergman collapses in a savage depression that he cannot shake until he starts writing his next script...
...dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against the Roman Empire...