Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...through. But all manner of neat details begin to make themselves felt. The movie gets to the defector's new house in Alexandria and suddenly all the CIA men are obnoxious boors, the Russian has thrice their intelligence and cock has departed from the heavy-handed moralism of the script to work ironically against...
Relying more than ever on his instincts, Hitchocock takes what he wants from Topaz's script and undercuts the rest. What he wants seems to be situations; the rest, sentiments expressed in the dialogue. Topaz has more existential variety and less emotional intensity than any of his previous films. New people and places follow each other, evoking scant reaction from the hero and his closest associates. The film has at least four beginnings and endings, but its characters do not change in the slightest. Hitchcock does not even motivate their actions...
From a director who always built his films about the moral progress of their heroes, this comes as a surprise. So does Hitchcock's indirect use of the script, spreading it to the point of incoherence instead of building its climaxes for all they are worth. Bchind this anti-melodrama lies an anti-hero. Andre Deveraux maintains with almost catatonic consistency his impassivity toward tortures and murders for which he is responsible...
...show grew out of Producer Reynolds' friendship with Dr. Norman Schacter, principal of Los Angeles High School. Many of the show's exterior scenes are shot at L.A. High, while the series' interior sets are based on the classrooms, corridors and offices of the school. Several script ideas have taken shape in the minds of the show's writers after spending time on the campus talking to teachers and students and sitting in on classes. "Arizona State Loves You," the story of a college coach recruiting a black high school athlete, is based on a similar...
...Cities directed by Louis Criss, allows the questions of motivation to remain unanswered. In this way. Criss allows Brecht's message to be revealed at the proper time. The director has resisted the call for absolute didacticism and delicately guides his players through Brecht's beautiful and puzzling script and the labyrinthine set by William Trotman which mirrors...