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In Reply to: Narrative Elements In Film posted by AudioHead on August 18, 2000 at 14:13:42:
Judging by the amounts of garbage which are being passed for movies today.
I believe thare's got to be the combination of directing, screenwriting and acting to make it work right. That's obvious. Director's comments that you presented here are inconsequential and megalomaniac without watching their films. And finding them to be of value.
Follow Ups:
On The Idiosyncratic Nature Of The Screenplay -"A screenplay is a very strange form of creative writing. Structured
like a (stage)play, flowing like music, consisting of 120 pages or
so of dialogue, and a few sparse directions that will act as the
creative impetus for everything that is to come." - Frank Pierson,
Screenwriter
So you see from the aforementioned quote that I value the script, it's
what gets the ball rolling when an interested producer gets hold of
it. I believe Sternberg's views are not representive of most directors, who don't come across nearly as arrogant and self-serving.
In fact, I think if he watched his own films with a objective eye, they would belie him to
some extent - a film with little relation to a script is visual chaos. However, a
script is certainly not sacrosant, it is altered, deleted, rearranged, rewritten, etc.
in a lot of ways by producers, directors and even by actors sometimes
throughout the production process.
As for the quality of films in general, it's a wonder that as many
good films are made as there are, simply because of the large number
of varying people who can make or break a film over the several years
it takes for such multi-million dollar projects to be accomplished.
Lots and lots of risk involved, everything ultimately falls on the
producer, who must see the whole project through from beginning to
end, and he or she is constantly under pressure from the studio to get
it done ON TIME and WITHIN BUDGET.
One more point concerning the scripts -How many bad Shakespeare's adaptations have you seen?
My answer is -A lot!
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