Title: Ben Hecht Pdf Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives)
Author: Adina Hoffman
Published Date: 2019-02-12
Page: 264
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist
He was, according to Pauline Kael, “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard called him “a genius” who “invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts—including Scarface,Twentieth Century, and Notorious—Ben Hecht was known in his day as ace reporter, celebrated playwright, taboo-busting novelist, and the most quick-witted of provocateurs. During World War II, he also emerged as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe, and later he became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine’s Jewish terrorist underground. Whatever the outrage he stirred, this self-declared “child of the century” came to embody much that defined America—especially Jewish America—in his time.
Hecht's fame has dimmed with the decades, but Adina Hoffman’s vivid portrait brings this charismatic and contradictory figure back to life on the page. Hecht was a renaissance man of dazzling sorts, and Hoffman—critically acclaimed biographer, former film critic, and eloquent commentator on Middle Eastern culture and politics—is uniquely suited to capture him in all his modes.
mainly for theater/film fans? Different people, different reactions and opinions. I was eager to learn more about Hecht and his writing, but I just couldn't get through this. It reads like a gossip column and just seemed like unthinking hagiography, more than I wanted to know about him as a person, much less than I wanted to know about his plays, scripts and so on.Ben Whoever! A terrific book. For film fans especially. I had no idea, frankly, who Ben Hecht was, and not much interest, but by the end of the book this incredibly witty and fluent screenwriter seemed a great psychological subject, an important cultural signifier, an ESSENTIAL subject. Hoffman's writing about film is especially dazzling. Really a magisterial and at the same time delightful book, providing intimate access to Hollywood under the studio system.
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