Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organ, rehearses right along with the cast, tailors the laughs snugly to the lines. He does away with the fuss and bother of a studio crowd, its distracting noises and unpredictable ways of laughing in the wrong places. "I don't work from any director's script," he says with a low, contented laugh. "I play...
...blame for the failure is not hard to fix. It rests squarely on the script writer, who, happily for his professional reputation, was not named in the screen credits. Mayerling had a large number of cliches, even for a television play. The members of the huge cast were constantly called on to deliver such literary gems as, "Anything is possible if you really want it." And most of the situations were as trite as the lines. For instance, when the love-stricken Rudolph is supposed to be shown pursuing Maria, where do we find him? Kneeling behind her in church...
...score for the movie On the Waterfront, some critics heard a new note in Bernstein's music, a curiously piercing purity that seemed to burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...
Westward Ho the Wagons! (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing...
Toward the end of the film the situation becomes slightly overworked and perhaps too fantastic. The script did not take the time to develop the murderers and personalities quite so carefully, and was forced to gather together all the fantastic nonsense which the film so charmingly perpetrates. But the ending is in good Guinness style...