Word: huston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biographer Ernest Jones describes as "one of the primitive films of those days with plenty of wild chasing." Odds are that he would scarcely be amused by a film now in the script stage and headed for the cameras next year, when an independent group led by Director John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt (son of Max) go to Vienna to make a movie about Sigmund Freud...
...Huston and Reinhardt first commissioned French Philosopher-Playwright Jean Paul Sartre to do the script. Sartre responded with a 450-page outline (many times the usual length of a first-draft film treatment), and Huston sent it back with gentle suggestions for cutting. From Paris came a second version, 870 pages long, and a third, running to 1,000. Huston quietly set them aside. One trouble was that the script suffered from Sartre's galloping Marxism and deep-seated anti-Freudianism. Said Sartre last week: "Je m'en fiche" (meaning, more or less. "I don't give...
...Dirty. With Hollywood Writer Charles Kaufman, Huston and Reinhardt proceeded, meeting earlier this year in Huston's castle in Ireland. Although their approach from the beginning has been as serious as a neurosurgical autopsy-"I was not a Freudian when we started this," says Reinhardt, "but after a time, when the Oedipus complex was mentioned all joking ceased"-the three men's discussions frequently embarrassed and sometimes outraged Huston's pious Irish Catholic servants...
...husband's script. Drinking coffee by the urn, she trembled, tried to control her shaking hands, broke out in a blotchy rash, spoke in a voice so constricted that it was barely audible. "I can't remember. I can't remember," she said, apologizing to Director Huston for a series of fluffs. She might well have written again in her dressing-room notebook what she wrote earlier this year during the filming of Let's Make Love: "What am I afraid of? Why am I so afraid? Do I think...
Patient, comprehending and stoic, looking in his bush jacket as if he had just come in off the veld, John Huston supervised his mustangs with detachment. He probably said as much about himself as about the film when he told the cast: "It is about people who sell their work but not their lives...