In fact, that had been her secret intention in writing this script: to try to rekindle the romance and fan it back to life.
We were a young, overworked bunch with elements of slapstick, as in that great media movie Broadcast News, where the cub reporter in unsuitable heels (that would be me) throws herself across rooms and down stairs clutching the new script to try to make it to the microphone by the time the light comes on.
Like Chapman, Schaefer is a fan of both The Beatles and J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, and said he began the script to try to understand "how someone could be inspired to kill anyone as a result of being exposed to this kind of beautiful art.
The scene on the French set would become almost circus-like at times, with no shooting script, writers flown in to try their hand at something that worked.
It's clearly very difficult to let someone score a script-dictated goal while pretending to try to stop them but, at the same time, trying not to look like you're pretending to try to stop them.
He said that he planned to meet with Shelby Brown, Mr. Coleman's widow, "and I'm going back over that old script, and we're going to try to resurrect him".
Huston, who directed The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, didn't allow actors to read scripts and try to become the characters they wanted to play.
And yet just the opposite has been true: in all of the armed services, recruiters have been pretty much sticking to their scripts in trying to persuade young men and women to join the military, not in order to fight the current war, but to make a career choice.
When trying to sell your book or script, try not to go overboard about it being an absolute certainty.
