Word: pulman
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...director and producer and, to meet his desire for a high-toned context, allowed him some say over commercials (he wanted none for such things as toilet paper and feminine-hygiene products). Furthermore, ABC agreed to cluster more commercials together, thus interrupting the drama less often. British Writer Jack Pulman, who wrote the BBC's I, Claudius and War and Peace, was hired to do the adaptation. After eleven months of research and planning, he suffered a fatal heart attack. Wouk was persuaded to undertake the script...
Wouk had already absorbed his first lesson in cinematic construction from the original scriptwriter, Jack Pulman. A key element in the novel was the ironic perspective of the apocryphal German General Von Roon, who narrated the historical passages. Pulman maintained that Von Roon's literary irony could not be preserved and that his insights ought to be dramatized in scenes showing world leaders in action. "It was a hell of a shock to me," says Wouk. But within a day Wouk had concluded that it was "a craftsmanlike stroke that cut to the heart of the matter...
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