Screenwriting
Jun 30, 2021
3 minutes
riters, like cats, are resistant to herding, hence how fraught their relationship with the film industry has often been. The arrival of talkies put them in the frame, but also under the yoke. Coarse-grained movie moguls like Jack Warner, who boasted of owning a ‘Toujours Lautrec’, called screenwriters ‘schmucks with Underwoods’ and made them clock in and out every day like factory hands and work in teams of a dozen or more. For Warner and Co, words were a necessary evil. What really
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