Everybody Wins (Miller, Arthur)
Category: Books,Humor & Entertainment,Movies
Everybody Wins (Miller, Arthur) Details
From the Back Cover Everybody Wins, with a provocative preface on the role of language in screenwriting is a richly atmospheric, masterfully plotted suspense story, but of course, in the hands of Arthur Miller, it is much more. Read more
Reviews
Reading a screenplay is somewhat different from a play. Readers must keep this in mind as they read this Arthur Miller work. The structure of the screenplay slows the pace of the story to some degree, which is one of the main reason that I could not give "Everybody Wins" five stars. It just seemed to move too slow.A man is framed for murder but has a female acquaintance named Angela Crispini that mysteriously wants to prove his innocence. Why is she so convinced that he is innocent? When a famous private investigator named Tom O'Toole takes an interest in the the mysterious Angela, he sees layers of her story revealed only to have Angela reveal the biggest surprise to Tom's acquaintance Judge Murdoch. In the end, everybody wins in the form of a small victory. The small victory is that the innocent Felix Daniels is set free from prison. The biggest criminals are never brought to justice.I really do not have a desire to see the movie version of this story because I fear the portrayal of the characters would soil my enjoyment of the story. Even if this story lacks a certain amount of Miller's charm, it is still quality work in written form.
