Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest as it was, his life was probably beyond dreams he might have entertained as a boy in his native Chihuahua, where his parents and their ten children earned a bare subsistence with a vegetable and fruit stand in the market. As any good script would have it, Primitivo, 23, along with his younger brother Alfredo, began a naturalization course at night at Kansas City's Westport High School, the first step to ward his cherished goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. If Primitivo Garcia had been like the U.S. citizens who were around Westport one cold night last...
...earlier reincarnations bore much relation to the true Bonnie and Clyde story, and they did not bother Benton and Newman. Frankly imitating the juxtaposition of dulcet tragedy and saline comedy that characterizes the work of France's François Truffaut, the two writers decided to write a script for him-even though they had never met him. In their original version, Clyde was a homosexual; he and Bonnie shared the favors of C. W. Moss in a weird menage a trois. At the time, Truffaut was working on Farenheit 451, but he took a week off to teach...
...midst of a Senate debate on Selective Service reform, Edward Moore Kennedy of Massachusetts was barely able to suppress a guffaw when he paused to read an unsigned note in small, familiar script. "Move in for the kill," it said. "I'm behind you. Way behind." The message from Kennedy's older brother and junior Senate colleague, Robert, was accurate as well as amusing. Bobby is political patriarch of the clan and may be a candidate for President in a few years, but he is way behind his kid brother when it comes to the use of power on Capitol...
Throw Away the Script. His career lasted over half a century; by 1803, at 71, he was too weak to compose, but lingered on six more years to counsel such later hotbloods as the young Beethoven and Weber. For most of his life he was court composer to Prince Nicholas Esterházy, who obliged him to wear livery and dine at the servants' table, but who gave him every encouragement to tinker with accepted musical conventions and, when necessary, to kick them over. Haydn's musical life, in fact, stands as a direct contradiction...
Privilege, by Peter Watkins explores the relationship between the fiction film and the documentary, the written script read and performed as cinema verite. In a style most closely resembling a travelogue, Chris Marker's masterpiece Le Mystere Koumiko reveals Japan's national character by following a young girl. Rosselini describes his newest film La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV as an educational film, and indeed, its greatness emerges from the simplistic straight-forwardness of films about artists and poets shown in high school auditoriums. Most recently, Conrad Rooks' extraordinary Chappaqua is, from start to finish, a home movie...