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The plotting of anything or the solving of a problem, two essentials to sustained interest, are of course pursuits. As for "idea" or the "weenie" it is said every play must have, that weenie is mostly baloney.
Idea is of course important, much as the seed is important to the tree, but like an opinion, a thought or desire, an idea is never interesting until it emerges into action, and the moment it does it becomes very definitely something else. Idea in action, or idea being furthered, is a pursuit.
Characterization is often mistaken for pursuit and considered by many a better term, probably because time and use have venerated it. But characterization embodies two components, and any one factor that even suggests more than one important basic component in its makeup is precisely and emphatically what we wrant to avoid in fixing the appeal in a movie's parts, or what those parts contribute to a movie's whole appeal.
Characterization means character in action, the thing the actor portrays as well as himself; the lines he speaks, what he says and does as wrell as the doer ; but it is the thing he does, his pursuit, not the doer, that counts most in any consideration of basic appeal.
I Met Him in Paris, with Claudette Colbert, illustrates quite clearly the difference between characterization and main pursuit.
Three young blades wanted the heroine, the basic situation quadrangled, situational because she was not aware that one of her suitors was married. One characterized mistrust, another was too wise to be human, the third wTas not dependable. All three wanted girl, one of the main pursuits. The girl characterized indecision. Trying to decide which boy she wanted she characterized the principal variation of the other main pursuit, girl wants boy.
Beulah Bondi characterized a catty busybody in Street Scene. At the same time she furthered disapprobation of wife-stealing or cheating. Street Scene
was judged in part by Miss Bondi's conception of a busybody, but it was disapprobation of cheating, a variation of apprehension of cheating, a main pursuit, that made her performance notable.
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