Mood

Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, a fun-loving, hard-working Hollywood writing-directing team (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend), came home from Europe conscious of one big difference between U.S. and European movies. To the New York Post's Archer Winsten they explained:

"You have to smuggle mood into an American picture. Mood itself, American audiences will not swallow. You have to be extremely clever. You do it with a shoehorn. For instance, a European opens his picture with a shot of the clouds. Then another, very beautiful. Then a third. The audience accepts it as part of the mood.

"With an American audience, the first shot of clouds they'll look at. The second, they'll look for an airplane. In the third shot the airplane has got to explode. . . ."

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