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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Screenwriters get less attention on the whole than playwrights, I think. Yet the script is where it all begins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I’ve now written to Mr Morgan. If he gets several emails along the same lines, it must surely make him think?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Christine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> afamilyatwar-list-bounces@baylor.edu [mailto:afamilyatwar-list-bounces@baylor.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Veit, Richard via Afamilyatwar-list<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 July 2018 22:48<br><b>To:</b> Afamilyatwar-list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Afamilyatwar-list] David Lean on Writers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hello, All.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>In Which We Serve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>This Happy Breed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Brief Encounter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Great Expectations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hobson's Choice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Bridge on the River Kwai<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Lawrence of Arabia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Doctor Zhivago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Ryan's Daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>A Passage to India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>All too often, I think the screenwriter does not receive ample credit, recognition, and financial rewards. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Richard Veit<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>