Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They said it couldn't be done. They said you could never make a movie out of The Sound and the Fury. Too complex. Too confusing. Whole thing takes place in some blithering idiot's mind. They said it could never be made into a movie...
Faulkner has contributed to moviemaking in general the bonanza idea of a degenerate family in the degenerate South, but at this point, he and the movies part company Hollywood is currently enjoying an Aristotelian vogue, observing the unities of time and place. The action of this version of The Sound and the Fury takes place in two days, with no flashbacks. Furthermore, to add insult to injury, none of it takes place at Harvard. The most Faulknerian aspect of the movie is its striking similarity to The Long Hot Summer, another film supposedly based on Faulkner...
...addition, each room will be equipped with a new weather-stripped door with a built-in "automatic door-closer." Sound-proofed walls and recessed bookshelves are also among the projected improvements...
...musicals she made for 20th Century-Fox, Betty Grable's assets-pretty, round face, small, high-pitched singing voice, and the ability to stay on her feet through the dance numbers-were parlayed by skillful sound engineers and cameramen into a vision of the little girl next door turned vaudevillian. Under the harsh nightclub lights, Performer Grable looked uncomfortably like the little girl's well-preserved mother, as she sang...
...Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. Excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton...