Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenario was slapped together by TV Jokesmith Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show). It handily meets the standards of Producer Ross Hunter (Pillow Talk), who treats every comedy as a sumptuously vulgar fashion show...
...lnferno, the most exciting of the canticles, reads like a scenario for the ultimate horror movie. Hell, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...
...Ryan's Express, drawn from David Westheimer's World War II escape novel, is the kind of story that goes before the cameras almost as soon as it comes off the presses, possibly because the book reads like a scenario. Yet it makes a breakthrough of sorts. In the novel, the hero presumably lives happily ever after. In the movie, he dies...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...
When Vadim tires of treating sex as a naughty joke, he pads episodes with excursions into screwball farce. Playwright Jean Anouilh's scenario seldom seems funny, perhaps because the laughs are lost in the dubbed English version. Frequent close-ups make accurate lip synchronization impossible, and the flat, disembodied voices set up a sound barrier. It is a bit like watching dancers whirl through a Viennese waltz while the band plays Yankee Doodle...