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"HIT SEX HARD!" 241 development of that road, a facet of the plot which, in DeMille's view, could not be dramatized unless a writer felt some loathing for railroads as an institution. The writer indicated he would take a firm grip on his emotions and try to dredge up some serious hate against common carriers. Temperamentally, the more creative writers were unsuited for working with the hoss; they soon realized it and left. Such partings were often in the best of humor; others were edged with rancor or occasionally deep resentment. One writer, after six weeks of the DeMille system, left without word that he was quitting. He purchased some fifths of Scotch and for a week went into hiding from his family and friends. Later he told a fellow writer, "It will take me six months to get over the experi- ence with that r The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the outcome of a writing stint at DeMille's is not necessarily a safe one; DeMille's story formula, quarried and refined out of the experience of years, was peculiarly his own, and no force would cause him to change it. He felt that movies should tell their story without dialogue. "This is a pictorial art and to permit it to become a mere shadowgraph of the stage is simply throwing away our herit- age/' He was a creator in a different sphere; while writers were shaping subtle little definitions, DeMifle was figuratively atop Olympus devising ways to make worlds collide. He made sure he did not commit the mistake of a producer friend, who "lost a fortune because he became engrossed in creating a series of individually charming pictures and forgot to build up a clash of characters/* The emphasis on conflict—"the only thing that will keep an audience awake"—caused him to construct a plot in terms of action, often breaking down a story into what he called "pieces of action." A memo tacked on his wall all during the story-writing phase of Greatest Show set forth THE FIVE PIECES OF ACTION IN GSOE. In Samson and Delilah he envi- sioned the plot in the same way: 1. Brawl at wedding feast,