[Afamilyatwar-list] David Lean on Writers

[Scott Filderman]

Now two of us have written!
Surely some of “you lot” can send an e-mail, letting Mr. Morgan know what treasures he is, erm, sitting on?




On Friday, July 6, 2018, 3:13 AM, Christine Kendell via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

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Screenwriters get less attention on the whole than playwrights, I think. Yet the script is where it all begins.

I’ve now written to Mr Morgan. If he gets several emails along the same lines, it must surely make him think?

  

Christine

  

From: afamilyatwar-list-bounces at baylor.edu [mailto:afamilyatwar-list-bounces at baylor.edu] On Behalf Of Veit, Richard via Afamilyatwar-list
Sent: 03 July 2018 22:48
To: Afamilyatwar-list
Subject: [Afamilyatwar-list] David Lean on Writers

  

Hello, All.

  

This is a bit off-topic, but it does tie in with our frequent comments about John Finch and A Family at War.

  

I am reading a biography of film director Sir David Lean (1908-1991), and I came across this quote from him:

  

"The greatest mental and creative effort in any film is in the writing of the script. The writer not only creates the story but produces human beings out of his imagination, gives them words to speak and thoughts to think. He is the only truly creative person on a film. Without him, the actors would not have parts to play or words to speak, and the directors would be making documentary films, good enough in themselves, but without the force, the humanity and the appeal of a dramatic work of art."

  

I think that is a very generous and revealing statement, coming from someone who directed such classics as:

  

In Which We Serve

This Happy Breed

Brief Encounter

Great Expectations

Hobson's Choice

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Lawrence of Arabia

Doctor Zhivago

Ryan's Daughter

A Passage to India

  

All too often, I think the screenwriter does not receive ample credit, recognition, and financial rewards. 

  

Richard Veit
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