Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more educational was the composition of his memoirs. Painstakingly set down in elongated script, the memoirs were written in a classic prose Frenchmen had not seen in a long time?precise yet lyrical, stamped with honor, revealing the essential selflessness of a man dedicated to his nation's grandeur. On the strength of this literary achievement, France's intellectuals?who do so much to set their country's political tone?for the first time gave De Gaulle their wholehearted admiration.* And in the act of reducing his life to book form, the general reviewed his past mistakes, sketched...
...Plots. To launch a new venture, the Indian producer first consults his astrologer and then bribes two top stars to work for him. He dreams up a title but does not bother about a script; dialogue is usually written just before each day's shooting. Favorite subjects are musicals (about three times more music than in a Hollywood production), "mythologicals," adventures. Whatever the category, the moviemaker cashes in by simply currying Hollywood plots and "adapting" them...
...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...
Exit Miller. Enter Jean-Paul Sartre. In this French film version of the play, for which he wrote a capable and vivid script, Sartre, the famed existentialist and sometime fellow traveler, has somewhat enlarged the political reference in which...
...Hollywood the broomstick broke down. Like the play, the picture is about a beautiful witch (Kim Novak) who decides to exchange cantrip and gramarye for love and marriage, and about the man (James Stewart) she sets out to enchant. The part is almost perfectly written for Actress Novak. The script quickly announces that as a witch she is not supposed to blush, cry, or indeed have very much expression at all. But when the heroine suddenly changes into a woman in love, Kim's expression changes so little that the spectator may find himself wondering which was witch...