Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. The script is only another chapter in the legend of the West. But Sam Peckinpah's triumphant direction places him with the best of the newer generation of American film makers and makes the film a raucous, extremely violent classic of its genre...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A Texas drifter and a Bronx loner provide the nucleus of an unusual moving picture about love among the loveless. John Schlesinger (Darling) directs Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with a restraint that is often missing from the script...
...archives, consisting of thousands of clay tablets discovered in central Turkey in 1907, make no mention of a major campaign against the city. More damning perhaps is the absence of any reference to the war in ancient tablets found within Greece and written in the recently deciphered Linear B script. Berve points out, moreover, that only a few hundred years after Homer, the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides were already Questioning his accuracy: their writings about Troy are studded with phrases like "as far as poets can be believed" and "there have been some exaggerations...
...balance in the sets and in the play's structure, however, Shakespeare did not achieve balance in the quality of his text. An objective inspection of the script indicates that he seems not to have had his heart in the Claudio-Hero plot he borrowed from elsewhere. His chief achievement in the play are precisely those things he had to invent himself: the witty verbal skirmishing between Beatrice and Benedick, and the portrait of bureaucratic officialdom represented by the malapropistic Dogberry and his sorry crew. (Shaw is about the only person who has denied the wit of the high comedy...
...political authority's abuse and free action's virtue that one must take this, rather than its ostensible police-protection plot, as the film's subject. Steve McQueen plays a detective lieutenant whose chief shields him from an ambitious politician (Robert Vaughan, played for a straight heavy). The script puts McQueen's responsibility for his job in personal terms--his relations to his chief, battles with his own conscience, personal conduct...