Word: scenarist
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...years ago Kubrick, 35, got the rights to Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...
...playwright's bleak study of mankind may be an allegory subject to highly colorful interpretations, it may only be an exercise in ambiguity. The movie falters, too, because the flaws of filmed theater become obvious when ever Director Clive Donner and Scenarist Pinter try most earnestly to "open up" the play in cinema terms. A room sealed against the real and imagined terrors of the outside world is the natural hell of Pinter's characters, and a legitimate theater is an intimate place to share them. To set them roaming into the street or off to a neighborhood...
...same statement might be made to anyone who wants to see this movie. Ladybug is the second picture put together by Scenarist Eleanor and Director Frank Perry, the husband-and-wife team whose first picture, David and Lisa, was the best movie made in the U.S. last year. But this time the Perrys have plonked. Ladybug just crawls along for 81 minutes and never decides where it is going. The movie aims to be a thriller with a moral: it merely achieves a puerile apocalypse...
...Upon my word," said Coleridge, "I think Tom Jones one of the three most perfect plots ever planned." It is also one of the most intricate; a film of the full book might take six hours to show. Director Richardson and Scenarist John Osborne decided to tell the whole story -well, almost-but tell it so fast that six hours of hilarity are squeezed into two. And let the gasping customers fall where they...
...script is still a stage play, the settings are obviously painted flats, the actors yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down. The side characters are sarcastic caricatures of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and any old suth'n cunnel (Sorrell Booke); the hero is a big-mouthed burlesque of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nevertheless, every third line sinks in like a needle-not so deep it draws blood but deep enough...