http://www.cinemasight.com/the-dvd-report-280/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-dvd-report-280 Looking at Film from Every Angle Wed, 22 May 2013 11:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.cinemasight.com/the-dvd-report-280/comment-page-1/#comment-39362 Terry Thu, 16 May 2013 22:19:25 +0000 http://www.cinemasight.com/?p=42610#comment-39362 Not only did Penelope Gilliatt write the screenplay, she assisted in the editing of the film, selection of the actors, was on set to make changes to the dialogue as she saw fit and even cut scenes of her script that she did not believe benefited the film. John Schlesinger was outrageously jealous of Gilliatt and furious that she got the credit for her masterly screenplay which was judged the film’s finest achievement, and her many other contributions. Schlesinger was well known for telling different versions of what he called the truth, but that others called flat-out lies. He was bitter and jealous to the end that Gilliatt’s screenplay was judged finer than his direction, and so he began, after Gilliatt’s death, to try to take credit for her work. He lied. After SBS, Schlesinger’s career fell apart and he was reduced to making one piece of trash after another. For the lies he told about Gilliatt, it seems poetic justice.

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