Evening star., 1948-04-11
A Point of Agreement
C.. B. De Mile and Frank Capra Reach 1t
in Their Film.Makine Views
By Harry Macarthur


glance you might Of Cecil
De Mile Capra a great common Both of
and usually popular pictures Each has achieved position final
authority whereby he full responsibility
failure OF each photopay he makes Both of good taste
certainly similarity subject matter
which they choose into drama You
scope teemns
with color and action The future project with which
cened right telling the story Samson De
Mr. prefers people, usually
comedies with about the brotherhood of
in the wicked tolls of machine politics future project which
inigues him Eric Knights story
Of man who thought he could fly like bird and did.
They Agree Drama.
Their views of the problems Of moviemaking bring Mr.
town last week and each on successive day ad much tn. .sms
thing about certain facets their There
the matter Of making photoplay a thing of drama
Said II have clear-cut
have have definite good and bad influence in picture
dramatic conflict with good winning out in the end The ideal
villain, Capra hined probably atheist national.
political aerna affiliations and visible Of
lawyer pictured villain the bar association protests
sreecar pictured pro-
test Frenchman Mexican is pictured villain, the
boycott all the films made by that STUDIO
Capra continued, many
psychological photopays Insanity the villain there and
that Insaty fine villain for those who want to it,
No Films
Mile following IT have to have definite
conflict between good and evil when make picture may be old
fashioned make these modern psychological things He
doesn't like the the conflict whether he should do
with his wife by hanging her out the window stfng her
head in the have to have hero and q villain"
On the vagaes picture making generally the two in close
agreement
making pictures"
mo set out deliberately to make bad
picture picture depend on it, intended
its making to be good pic
who make movies falbe like else
who read the and thought would make
excellent film was wrong about that Maybe any one OF countless
things wrong
"You Never Know"
trying thing making motion picture is that
things without the director being aware OF It,
what have until you've shot last and
picture then look at picture in
projection and tell It, have audiences
laugh wrong laugh in the right places
suggested Mile the following day that there
danger his Samson and Dehah h OF audience laughter
when Samson first appears shorn.
suppose admitted But we'll
do the In such that the laugh won't
called avoid It, The has always been sign
vy strength on for instance has how1ng name
and the stallion Cut of the staon and he does be-
something I'll still have to take the chance
and shear Samson
Cycles Start.
you always have to take chances making
Mile said "Its are no
making good picture a do
everything right look
in the projection and feel
audience will with you expected
1t TO-"
always seeking and is the Mr. Capa
photoplay cycles
highly picture" he said "and
there starts racking his brain figure
Exactly what did do here they ask themselves
hit? They begin picking the examining everything
that went into it. Then that studio else makes another
hm trying for by using ingredients identical
and a cycle is under way"
having closely approxmates
full formula Mr. De Mile and Mr. probably
than upstairs responsibility
have achieved have its drawbacks however AS Mr.
1t: IF make two bad pictures in row, I'm through"