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Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:27 pm
by DavidS
Hello Bob, You are right that Graham Greene wrote the film script for 'The Third Man', but this was not included in the script. The director, Carol Reed claimed that Welles made up most of the conversation with Joseph Cotton, on the ferris wheel at the Prater in Vienna. If that is true, it was a remarkable achievement.
Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:50 pm
by jj
Greene wrote the 'film-treatment' (or screenplay/script, not sure of the precise description) concurrently wih the novel- the lead-time for book-publishing may have led to the 1950, vs. '49 for the film, release of the latter, but I don't know.
Neither can I remember from my reading the novel back in the mists of time if those actual words appeared, so a resolution must presumably await a better-read forumite.........
Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:12 pm
by Pervert
Most film anoraks accept that while Greene wrote the story, film treatment etc, the cuckoo clock speech was pure Welles.
Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:08 am
by jj
I think it likely, too, 4WIW, but I can't prove it either way without re-reading the book- and I'm currently engrossed in the new 1500-page literary Blockbuster 'Magoo's Biggest-ever Bumper Book of Abuse, Unpleasantness and Obnoxiousness' (Hodder & Stoughton and all good remainder-shops, ?37.50 h/back, ?2.99 paperback).........
o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:15 am
by Deuce Bigolo
Sounds like a short story collection to me
Did you write the foreword?
cheers
B....OZ
Re: o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:19 am
by Pervert
You can save ?5 on that at Amazon when you bought it together with Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People and Holden's Zen And The Art Of Fitting Stabilisers.
Re: o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:36 am
by jj
I wrote the F-word, certainly.........
Re: o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:36 am
by Deuce Bigolo
I bet Tescos have it out cheaper
Probably selling them as toilet reading material
Like those films that go straight to video these are the books that go straight to the Toilet hanging from the back of the door in broadsheet I bet
Holdens book would be all pictures I'm assuming
cheers
B....OZ
Re: o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:38 am
by Deuce Bigolo
By accident no doubt
f...f...f...f...f...f...f...f...f...etc etc etc
Theres an Offspring song that has a very similar beginning called Session
cheers
B....OZ
Re: o/t Re: US entry into World War II
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:39 am
by jj
Are there any pictures in Holden's magnum opus?
I don't buy books without pictures......