you have the old-school newsman, faye dunaway the new-school entertainment executive and she wins in the end. >> we see time and time again in surveys and anecdotes we can get all over that people want more straight news, serious news, the kind that gets harder and harder to find. is that one of the messages of the movie? >> i think the film is in some ways -- it's vividly a commentary on media, but it's a larger story about alienation. the media has a vehicle for that. there is also the love story between holden and faye dunaway and how they're, you know, driven apart and corrupted. you know, pad ti, the central character of the book, he was a very deeply feeling man. he was very attuned to a lot of things that were going wrong in the country. a little bit of a paranoid person as well. >> which caused him drama during the making of the film. >> exactly. hefls literally on et every single day, unheard of for a screenwriter. in some ways he even had more authority than the director to really say this is how i want each scene shot. you know, if you said even one word of a line of dialo

dunaway. it was the g. not when that thing was from that movie did you see the movie before you took this project in oh i sort of pride myself on being a little bit of a film buff at times and i had always been a little bit ashamed because i had the d.v.d. for years and i was always like this is the classic bonnie and clyde and i just never got around to watching it so as soon as i was sent the scripts i said well now i definitely can't watch it because actors if given the right place in the right time will be parents to other actors you know so if you see you know. an actor who's seen marlon brando in a streetcar named desire might as well not bother trying to play the part because it's going to be a lot harder so you didn't see it i didn't see it just sort of that way yeah as soon as we wrapped production in filming i watched it and i loved it i mean it was it's night and day from from our version i was actually shocked at how different our version was is so so well in the arthur penn versio