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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hello, All.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This is a bit off-topic, but it does tie in with our frequent comments about John Finch and A Family at War.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I am reading a biography of film director Sir David Lean (1908-1991), and I came across this quote from him:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">"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."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I think that is a very generous and revealing statement, coming from someone who directed such classics as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In Which We Serve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This Happy Breed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Brief Encounter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Great Expectations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hobson's Choice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Bridge on the River Kwai<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Lawrence of Arabia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Doctor Zhivago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Ryan's Daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A Passage to India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">All too often, I think the screenwriter does not receive ample credit, recognition, and financial rewards.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Richard Veit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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