Blog Assignment Three

Master Writer(s), Master Script

There are two things that work better than they do most of the time in this script. Its characters and the dialogue. The Apartment is a study in finely crafted characters that deliver well thought out lines. A quick mention about the plot because its great tragically comedic set up. That someone would feel so strongly the need to succeed at their place of employment that they would literally let out the place they live for their bosses to cheat on their wives is a strong character detail as well as gives the script its backbone. Bud Baxter is a sad, funny insurance salesman but the thing that makes him so interesting is how the dialogue cracks between him and whoever he’s in the scene with. Most of the time Bud lets the other person dominate the conversation, but three or four times he opens up and lets us see more of himself, like in this exchange with one of his bosses:
BUD - I'm sorry, Mr. Dobisch. You know I like to help you guys out -- but it's sort of late -- so why don't we make it some other time?
DOBISCH - Buddy-boy -- she won't keep that long -- not even on ice. Listen, kid, I can't pass this up -- she looks like Marilyn Monroe.
BUD - I don't care if it is Marilyn Monroe -- I'm already in bed -- and I've taken a sleeping pill -- so I'm afraid the answer is no.
Bud isn’t the only character that’s smart, though. Fran and Sheldrake also really worked for me. Fran with keeping the mystery around her up, and Sheldrake with his stories. I wish I had more room to talk about them but this already about double what we’re supposed to write.
Questions.
Who in this script committed the most morally reprehensible act? More importantly why is it worse than the rest?
Who is in this script is the most morally justified? Why are they more correct than the others.