Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script contains some of the best satire written in the last decade. "So That's the Way You Like It," a parody of Shakespeare, is extraordinary funny; The miner's soliloquy, too, is hilarious...
Album covers line the near wall. The Electric Prunes, Surrealistic Pillow, Fresh Cream, The Grateful Dead--all call out in glaring psychedelic script. Yet there was something in that ancient face of 36 years, smiling weakly in the shadows, that recalls a younger, simpler time...
...Woman to Beat. Well financed, and protectively handled by the astute political PR firm of Whitaker & Baxter, Mrs. Black stands aloof from the men in her race, refusing to debate, shielding herself from interviews and making the rounds of teas and kaffeeklatsches reciting a script of prepared cliches. When someone cracks the simplistic pattern, her pleasant, natural naivete congeals into frigid, wary courtesy. Yet her aversion to pornography, big government, welfarism, crime, dope and Ho Chi Minh has thrust the gamut of national issues into the campaign along with such peninsular problems as high taxes, education and the noise from...
...accuse Raphael of being unfaithful to Hardy's original. He has moved virtually every incident of the novel into his script. But in doing so, he, with Schlesinger's twitchy camera, have served up more plot than the film's skimpy characterization can plaster together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping...
...manages through elaborate efforts to keep her from recognizing hem. Why, then, does he return to her home to claim her in the next next scene? The fault is not Stamp's. He plays his part well, with touches of malice and touches of humanity, but with the script...