http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/revisiting-some-classics/ actor. writer. journalist. advocate. that guy you know. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:57:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/revisiting-some-classics/#comment-364 nytheatre mike Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:47:09 +0000 http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/?p=489#comment-364 Ian, this sounds horrifying. I'm glad I didn't have to put up with Brooks during all of this. Although, I have to say, the movie feels exactly like this is what was going on behind the scenes. Unbelievable. Thanks for the info. : ) Ian, this sounds horrifying. I’m glad I didn’t have to put up with Brooks during all of this. Although, I have to say, the movie feels exactly like this is what was going on behind the scenes. Unbelievable. Thanks for the info.
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]]> http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/revisiting-some-classics/#comment-345 Ian W. Hill Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:30:56 +0000 http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/?p=489#comment-345 You should read Ralph Rosenblum's <i>When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins</i> - one of the best books on film editing there is - to learn more about how much MORE out-of-control <i>The Producers</i> could have been. Brooks the writer couldn't handle ONE WORD of his perfect script being tampered with, hated what Mostel had done with the part (and to a lesser extent, all of the other actors - he'd been doing his script solo in peoples' living rooms for years and figured he knew THE PERFECT WAY), didn't know how to direct a movie yet at all, and had to be dragged through the cutting (literally) kicking and screaming and throwing ashtrays as they tried to make the movie even slightly releasable. A story both funny and terrifying to read (Rosenblum also cut most of Woody Allen's early films and several others he discusses in great detail in the book). You should read Ralph Rosenblum’s When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins – one of the best books on film editing there is – to learn more about how much MORE out-of-control The Producers could have been. Brooks the writer couldn’t handle ONE WORD of his perfect script being tampered with, hated what Mostel had done with the part (and to a lesser extent, all of the other actors – he’d been doing his script solo in peoples’ living rooms for years and figured he knew THE PERFECT WAY), didn’t know how to direct a movie yet at all, and had to be dragged through the cutting (literally) kicking and screaming and throwing ashtrays as they tried to make the movie even slightly releasable. A story both funny and terrifying to read (Rosenblum also cut most of Woody Allen’s early films and several others he discusses in great detail in the book).

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