Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating on its dramatic effects on the characters. It is to Mr. Babe's credit that he realizes this and dispenses with the plot devices quickly and efficiently, underplaying the melodrama in the script...
...With a script based on Scripture and a cast of nonprofessional actors, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist, retells the life of Christ as an earthy social drama, happily avoiding the pretentious piety of most Bible epics...
...lighting, by director Daniel Freudenberger, gives us some chilling moments when the ghosts do appear. These scenes are also blocked effectively, but at other times blocking is clumsy and even ludicrous--as when the children play a halting game of hobby horse. Much of the dramatic tension of the script is realized, however, and there is real tension when the governess and ghost battle over the little...
...Script du Jour. What exactly is going on is a stage secret. The sets are generally closed; the stars are forbidden to discuss their roles and are trusted only with the pages of script in which they appear. Feldman explains that this security is necessary to protect his uproarious ideas from TV or film-by-night pirates. Another explanation is that no one is talking because no one knows what to say: the scenario changes by the second...
...screenplay started twelve years and countless versions ago as a literal adaptation of the novel. The late Ben Hecht had three bashes at it. It was then completely rejiggered by Billy Wilder, who in turn got rewritten by Joe (Catch-22) Heller. To no avail. By last week the script du jour was the product of Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law. Except that Peter Sellers has winged most of his scenes, John Huston is redoing his, and Woody Allen is working up an altogether new concept...