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= April 13 =

What does "life everlasting" & "director-proof" mean?
A group of people tell their horror fantasy movie script to Selznick:


 * Kaufman: The Faustian bargain of life everlasting.
 * Perelman: And the triumph of the human spirit over the beast incarnate in our far-too-solid flesh.
 * Mank: It's director-proof'.
 * Mank: It's director-proof'.
 * Mank: It's director-proof'.

What does "life everlasting" & "director-proof" mean? Rizosome (talk) 09:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC)


 * "Life everlasting" is just what it says: eternal life or immortality. And "director-proof" means even a bad director can't harm the movie (because the script is that good). Clarityfiend (talk) 10:45, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * If this was in a Christian religious context, "life everlasting" would refer to the belief in an afterlife (often called "eternal life"), as in the English translation of the Apostle's Creed. But here I too suppose (I can't see the context) that it means physical immortality, exemption from death. As to "director-proof", "that good" works here, but for general applicability I'd prefer to say "that robust" rather than "that good", as some scripts are superb yet delicate. --Lambiam 14:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Rizosome (talk) 17:23, 14 April 2021 (UTC)