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Wysłany: Sob 9:28, 16 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: wind max tn and Revenge Of The Schmucks |
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It's a lengthy journey, from self-deprecation to self-assertion. Call it their Long March whether you ambition, an equation that certainly would have made the dads of the action explode into whiskey-laced mirth.
Then came the war and the assertion namely the globe underwent ample. Hollywood's writers began apt watch themselves at present distinct team that had endured also much. The alignment, hitherto half joke [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], began to grow in number. McCarthy monopolized TV, and it was they who were his biggest target. The laboratories fell, and one audience wise apt their antique tricks emerged. The spend of filmmaking rose, and they demanded, rightly, their just share.
Last week, at the Oscars, they scored a big and, I conceive, inevitable, triumph: the screenwriting medals, traditionally two thirds of the way into the broadcast, were presented later - yeah, after [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! - the Best Actor and Actress Awards - with photos of the writers accompanying each membrane mow no fewer, and a split screen, equitable favor the actors and the advisers have been obtaining for annuals, of entire of their worried faces for they anticipated the champions.
Jack Warner called them "schmucks with Underwoods," but as distant as they were concerned, the joke was on him, for at the peak of Warner and Mayer and Zanuck were disbursing them what they were disbursing them, who were the real schmucks?
If Hollywood's first writers had no 'eyes on the award,' it's because they felt they had secured it already. Stolen it, in fact. Hollywood was a world further their maximum larcenous dreams: pay checks the size of swimming pools for go they could do in three days. The New York newspaper din, their first residence, with its firm deadlines, abusive editors and lowlife sources, immediately existed only when they jotted it into a script.
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Women Screenwriters and Oscar Nominations
Screenplay Winners from 2009 Oscars
Playwrights and the Oscars
It was plot tangles and formulas that were above their ideas, not respectability or immortality. The movies were not a fashion they took seriously; they were a money grab [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plain and simple. Their time in Hollywood was no a Long March yet a Gold Rush.
I could not aid but calculate that antagonism their inconsistencies, a kinship still existed between screenwriters old and current, and that somewhere, Ben Hecht, the skipper of the 1st guard, was encouraging them to cap the trumping of the real schmucks along doing what he had done, and using their Academy Awards for door stops.
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