Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero was a bent-nosed ex-pug who seemed too ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much of the film by pushing his photographer around in a wheelchair, screaming instructions at the players...
...NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER, by Robert Anderson, wears its heart on its sleeve but has small muscle in its script. It sentimentally examines the plight of a son who wants to heal the wound of lovelessness festering between himself and his aging tyrant of a father, magnificently played by Alan Webb. A sense of mortality, filial duty and remorse, family ties that chafe as well as bind, all give the play scenes of poignance but, despite the impeccable direction of Alan Schneider, never a coherent dramatic vision...
...quarrel" with this document a few months ago, after a one-page facsimile from it, with a dramatic account of its discovery, appeared on the front page of the New York Times. I read the article and telephoned the writer to tell him that in my opinion the script was definitely not that of James Joyce. I have handled scores of letters and manuscripts by Joyce, but not a single one looked anything like the facsimile reproduced in the New York Times...
...genre that must be underplayed, Williams hokes up the script into near parody. He huffs and puffs doom like an overamplified Greek chorus, and lays on the suspense with all the foot-clumping subtlety of a horror movie...
...sequence, which talks elliptically of Greek myths and their significance to film makers: "Film is like the snake, the worm Ourobouros, and like all continuous forms can be symbolic of evil." Montages of images cascade across the screen for 21 minutes while Narrator Parker reads the directions from the script ("Medium Shot: Wife on Ferris wheel, seat-five. Close up wife's frightened face . . .") in order to remind viewers that they are watching a film. The chaos is astonishingly well photographed and edited-and, far more than most of the other entries, displays a debt to the non-styles...