Word: scenarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fury (Columbia) is an oater which manages to suggest that, underneath, it is an allegory about the international situation-or perhaps even about the whole human condition. One minute it sounds like any other he-went-thataway scenario, and the next minute the hero and the villain are murking around in long words about good & evil...
...dramatic aspects under a heavy mass of superfluous detail and fuzzy verbiage. Where James Jones spent pages describing the torments of the penal stockade at Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate it into terms acceptable to the Johnson Office. It's translation, of course...
Like most poets, Welshman Dylan Thomas can't afford to think of poetry as a living. To eke out his own, he does what he can in other writing fields. And he is certainly among the few living poets, not to mention scenario writers, who could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless...
From London came more ballet news last week: the première of a new number, The Lady in the Ice, with scenario and sets by Orson Welles. Welles, challenged to try a ballet at a chance meeting with Choreographer Roland Petit in Paris, tossed off a scenario idea on the spot: a young girl is frozen in a block of ice; thawed out by a young man's ardent dancing, she comes to life, but as her enthusiasm waxes, his wears out, and at the end it is he who is frozen solid. Welles helped with the staging...
...last week. At a forward observation post, where visiting brass was also on hand, the newsmen received printed timetables for the operation. The paper work was standard except for a fancy cover, decked with a two-color reproduction of the division's insigne. Inside, newsmen spotted the word "scenario...