7 ordspråk av Phyllis Nagy
Phyllis Nagy
I personally tend to believe her story, that she meant to shoot herself. She did do a test fire; she did have trouble handling a gun. But it all didn't fit with the jury.
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It's hard not to feel sympathy for her for all sorts of reasons. There are warring factions of pride and devotion. I suppose if we put ourselves in her position, if you have a love that operatic, you change your mind from minute to minute about someone.
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Obviously, there are shots that she doesn't account for. What I believe just personally is that she did mean to drive up in an awful storm and kill herself. As for what happened once she was in that bedroom -- I'd hope the film makes a compelling case for what happens in the heat of the moment.
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She maintains that sort of distance, and I think that's the kind of distance one needs to walk that line with that humor. So the script is informed on every level by it.
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That is the way I write. Everything I write is about very serious things, but handled in a sort of idiosyncratic manner.
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The pace is especially important in this, when it isn't so much a whodunit. We had to find a way to structurally keep shifting the focus, where you think you know something but you see that you don't.
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When I was a kid in a small private school on Long Island and this event occurred, we were all fascinated. For years, I've been wondering what to do with the material. I think it should be an opera. They're all so operatic and passionate in their personalities.
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