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''The Dreaming Child'' is a screenplay by Harold Pinter (1930–2008), the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, which he completed in 1997 and published in volume 3 of his ''Collected Screenplays'' (2000). It has not yet been filmed. It is an adaptation of the short story "The Dreaming Child" by Danish author Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). Pinter's manuscripts for this work are housed in The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library. ==Background== The co-editor of ''The Pinter Review'' Francis X. Gillen discusses the genesis of Pinter's unpublished screenplay, based on materials in the Archive, in his essay on this work, focusing on Pinter's "political vision" in his adaptation of Blixen's short story to the film medium. According to his official website and correspondence in the Archive cited by Gillen, Pinter's screen adaptation was commissioned by actress Julia Ormond, who wanted to produce and to direct a film of this work: Julia Ormond commissioned this Pinter screenplay -- a 19th century tale of a mother's failure to love her adopted child -- as part of her 20th Century Fox development deal as producer/director. Her first offering as producer was the television documentary Calling the Ghost based on two womens' suffering in Bosnia. At the time of Pinter's death, 24 December 2008, the film had still not been made. In ''Harold Pinter'' his official authorised biographer Michael Billington quotes Pinter's comment, "I had enormous respect for both Julia and her vision … but she was intent on directing, as well as producing, the film and in the end it was this that brought the project to its knees. The money-men simply wouldn't give her the chance" (398). Billington, who describes the screenplay as "remarkable", adds, "Which is sad because Pinter's screenplay is on a level with his work for Joseph Losey. It (comment ) is also a perfect riposte to the sceptics who argue that Pinter's political engagement has diluted his aesthetic sensibility," as he finds "Pinter's keen awareness of mortality and compensating hunger for life" to be "also apparent" in this "remarkable" screenplay (398). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dreaming Child (screenplay)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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