Word: scripting
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...ULLMANN: Well, I don't want to see that. Which, I'm sure, was one of the reasons why Ingmar never gave the script for me to direct. We look at life somewhat different...
...ULLMANN: Yes. The last thing he did was Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, three or four years ago. Then he said "this is the last." And when he did this film, which was a surprise for everybody, he said "This is the last I do," in terms of script and film. And now I know he really means...
...TIME: I was thinking of one Bergman's greatest admirers, Woody Allen. As you probably know, he doesn't give his actors the entire script for the film, just their own scenes. But Bergman isn't like that, right? Isn?t his direction of actors in film rooted in his direction of actors in the theatre...
...ULLMANN: Yes, he wouldn't work with someone who hadn't been part of stage life. I think all his actors always have to belong to the stage. And, obviously, we get the whole script. He also feels that we are bright enough, have time to see enough, experience enough, to read into it what we understand of the characters. So he will never say what you are thinking, or why you are doing something. He will give the blockings; then he will sit and watch. He may be very inspired by an actor who is giving him something that...
...know the rest if you've seen this latest adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (script by Josh Friedman and David Koepp) or even if you haven't. Out of the rubble rise giant alien ships that walk on three spindly legs and whose deadly heat rays not only destroy civilization as we know it but also threaten to split up Tom Cruise's latest movie family. The new film is a toss-up with George Pal's very watchable 1953 version: the special effects are even better here, the drama even lamer...