This is not a comment or assessment of the film itself, but a rough collection of scattered notes.
The first time to write a script for a script based on your personal life experience - miraculously, really - watching film production and publishing is always inspiring. Always reminding me of Robert Mulligan, 42-year-old summer; Douglas Des Stewart with an official and a gentleman; and James Tobak and gambler . [Even Sylvester Stallone and Loki may also qualify here.] I said they are inspiring because these news always bring some desire not just to entertain or make it in Hollywood - the screenwriter in their The message is so consistently believed that they believe that they must mention that our truth is worth discussing in artistic terms, and their desire for success is not denied. In fact, we pointed out very briefly a scene in this picture, Toback's The Gambler, the protagonist Axel Freed, a professor of literature, gave a short lecture on his subject to this class. Will and desire.
This is an excerpt from an article by Toback for Deadline Hollywood. It gives some background on how he writes scripts.
"After graduating from Harvard University in 1966, I taught literature and writing in a radical new course at CCNY. Other teachers include Joseph Heller, John Hawks, William Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, Adrienne Rich, Mark Mirsky, and Israel Horovitz. Wrote articles and criticism. For... from
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gambler Originally intended as a novel. Turn it into one. When I did my best, I felt like a recording secretary. I simply put down the dialogue on paper and the images I heard. I saw that they were not sounds and pictures at all, but real in my brain. Life action. "
As we have seen, the film is a powerful personal vision at the beginning. British director Karel Reisz quickly participated in the project. Reisz is the author of a groundbreaking essay on film editing. He is an obituary in the Guardian. He is a realistic film director focusing on "edge characters." Of course, the gambler is qualified there.
After they were finished and prepared, he was also unlucky about how the executives who handled the photos were handled. The Toback article quoted above details the gambler's claims; Steven Bach's Final Cut is one of Hollywood's truly classic insiders. He recorded Reisz's next film, "Who will stop raining?" The studio is broken! [By the way, this photo was adapted from Robert Stone's classic novel "Dog Warrior." Stone will continue to write the excellent Hollywood sniper novel "The Son of Light", which is easy to understand after reading Bach.]
The film itself is a bit strange, and the articles related to the above are incalculable for understanding it and the overall gambling sensitivity. Lauren Hutton is almost unreal on the screen - why is this woman no longer a star? James Caan plays an addictive gambler in the title, but being a college professor is not really convincing. Paul Sorvino's role is his role in Goodfellas and A Touch of Class. In the small role, we have a lot of actors, these actors will get quite good recognition over the years - Lawrence Hilton - Jacobs, Bertyan, Victabek, Antonio Fagas, James Woods. All of these people are very capable.
Although the script is very powerful and obviously real, it is not without problems - for example, Axel's girlfriend and mother, both of which have stood out for a while, at some point just fell off the screen. They really disappeared. Dostoevsky's existentialism as a working philosophy is very doubtful, even though we understand that it is the main operating principle of the main characters.
Orignal From: Postmodern film method - gambler
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