script has its origins in “a tense encounter between Ernest Hemingway and a young Welles.” Welles said that a “whiskey-drinking Hemingway” moc
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The film focuses on a veteran director (Huston) who is trying to stage a comeback. According to the Times, the script has its origins in “a tense encounter in 1937 between Ernest Hemingway and a young Welles.” Welles said that a “whiskey-drinking Hemingway” mocked him as one of the “effeminate boys of the theater,” and, when he “mocked him back, Hemingway threw a chair and they scuffled—settling it with a toast that led to an on-again, off-again friendship.” Hemingway apparently “serves as the primary model for Huston’s character.”
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