Word: crosscutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, rambling personal statement, which is commercial death for us." Ophuls' original intention had begun to change during filming, as he had warned might happen. He informed the producers of the change in a memo written the day before the first screening that he "was unable to crosscut, say, Auschwitz and Viet Nam . . . emotionally, I have found it wrong." Ophuls had produced a film about what he calls "the necessity of judgment, as opposed to the impossibility of judgment." It was after all the producers had got their first look at the film that the fury really began...