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A screenplay in film production obviously turns on considerably more than words—acting, directing, sets, stills, camera angles, score, close-ups and fade-outs, and all manner of stage directions indoors and out. And yet, if the dialogue is not right, nothing turns out very well. So in 1975 documentary filmmaker Richard Pearce set out to find “Not just any screenwriter. A great screenwriter.” Coming to no terms with Eudora Welty, he consulted the estranged wife and literary editor of Cormac McCarthy for an El Paso post office box, assured that the roving Tennessean would check his mail about every six weeks.
Among the turtles and the lilies he turned to me The white ignorant hollow of his face.
—Stanley Kunitz, “Father and Son”
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© 2009 Kenneth Lincoln
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Lincoln, K. (2009). Southern Milltown Script: The Gardener’s Son . In: Cormac McCarthy. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617841_7
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