They had a good deal on their minds, and this form (straightforward dialogue without cinematographic complications) gave them natural occasions to speak out. Johan and Marianne became very real, very quarrelsome even. The original took the same six-part format as the finished series: 'Innocence and Panic', 'The Art of Sweeping Things Under the Carpet', 'Paula', 'The Valley of Tears', 'The Illiterates' and 'In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World'. Photo: Jens Gustafsson © Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergmanīy, Bergman had finished the screenplay. As Sven Nykvist has noted: 'What Bergman has made for television are not simply films on television, they are television films.' Bergman himself described Scenes from a Marriage as 'an aesthetically superior everyday product for TV'. Admittedly, and for various reasons, they have all gone on cinema release, but they were intended for television.
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Virtually all of Bergman's films since Scenes from a Marriage have been made for television, whether series ( Face to Face, Fanny and Alexander) or one-offs ( The Magic Flute, Saraband). The transition to television was to be almost absolute. And I really enjoy the music and dance programmes – not to mention the ice hockey! When the world championships were on a few weeks ago, I certainly didn't get much writing done on 'Scenes from a Marriage'.' I watch the weather forecast every evening, the news, too. Television is quite simply the most amazing thing. 'When you live on Fårö you become an avid television viewer. Photo: Jens Gustafsson © Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman Like those, "Scenes from a Marriage' (the working title of the proposed series), would deal with: 'the absolute fact that the bourgeois ideal of security corrupts people's emotional lives, undermines them, frightens them'. "Thematically", Bergman explained, 'the series will be a follow-on from or an adaptation of the two middle class tragicomedies I have made for the cinema and television, The Touch and The Lie. On the Swedish broadsheet daily Dagens Nyheter announced that, for the first time in his career, Ingmar Bergman was to write and direct a television series. I rather fancy a series of scenes from a marriage.' There'll be plenty of exciting dialogue to get stuck into. We'll have lots of material to work with, as much as possible, I hope there will be an enormous amount. It mustn't cost too much, nor involve any financial risks. 'Here's something we can do for the fun of it. On 27 March 1972 Ingmar Bergman wrote in his workbook:
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