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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2352  Wednesday, 27 November 2002

From:           John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net>
Date:           Monday, 25 Nov 2002 11:30:51 -0500
Subject: 13.2338 Re: "Speaking Shakespeare"
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.2338 Re: "Speaking Shakespeare"

[Editor’s Note: Anyone wishing to continue discussion of this thread
should do so privately.]

Sam Small <samsmall@globalnet.co.uk> writes,

>As a student of film, Mike Jensen must realise that the director is the
>final arbiter of artistic decision on any film provided the producer and
>distributor pass it.  Therefore Sam Mendes was entirely responsible for
>everything we saw and heard in "American Beauty".

So your contention is that a film director has no responsibility to the
text whatsoever?

The webmasters at http://www.wga.org/somebody/index.html must be
silently weeping.

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