Word: bergmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
Infernal Machine. Bulldog Pictures establishes Bergmann in an apartment...
London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
Already I feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...
...retract any thing. ... It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to pre pare, like anarchists, with the utmost in genuity and malice." But young Isherwood soon discovers that he is going to be taught far more than the ways of the movie. Each day Director Bergmann flies off from the romantic plot of Prater Violet at a thousand tangents...