XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:08:27 -0000 (UTC), Doc O'Leary   
    wrote:   
      
   >For your reference, records indicate that   
   >Alan Baker  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Feel free to disagree, and I didn't say that having a good script would   
   >> guarantee a good movie.   
   >   
   >My point is that not only was it not a “guarantee”, but that there doesn’t   
   >even seem to be a *correlation* that would suggest the opposite (bad script   
   >-> bad movie) might possibly be true.  It just isn’t useful to have that as   
   >a post hoc rationalization for a flop.  Studios could save soooooo much   
   >money if they could accurately classify loser scripts before the production   
   >process goes any farther.   
      
   IIRC, Ring Lardner was given the script credit for /M*A*S*H/ --   
   despite the fact that the actual dialog was mostly, if not entirely,   
   ad-libbed by the actors.   
      
   I'm not saying any script from Ring Lardner could be a bad script, but   
   if the actors ignore it and make up their own dialog, what does it   
   matter?   
      
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