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"HIT SEX HARD!" 235 away nothing in a DeMille script. That line's not only a waste but it means the character is a pansy/' Cavett, whose "Going My Way" had won an Academy award, remained away from his desk for a few days to recover from the shock. Sensitive, like scores of other writers before him, Cavett could not get adjusted to this method of evolving a screenplay, and left after a few weeks. Melodrama burned brightly in DeMille's mind. If he warred, rather than worked, with his writers it was because he wanted them to feel the scenes as deeply as he did. He constantly hammered at the emotional meaning. Once he cried, "There's terrific power in this scene. You can get the audience so worked up they can't bear it. What I want here is something that would make Shakespeare say, *Why didn't I think of that*!" DeMille: This is the best piece of writing thus far but I am still a little puzzled by the motives of the two people. It's very well done but what is it they do? I don't know what the man is thinking. I'm not sure whether she is in love with him or not. He starts out by saying, "You're a vicious little bitch," but I don't know how he finishes. What's she trying to do? You don't reach any climax. You ring the curtain down be- cause you have run out of breath. They're just exactly at the point where they came in. Writer B: His whole feeling has changed. DeMille: Where do I get that, except from you? Now he says, "You're not going to do anything to me, I'm getting out." What progress has been made? Writer A: She breaks him down in the course of the scene. DeMille: Where? How? Where does she break him down? Writer A: Page 100....