In 1948, Hollywood producer David O Selznick approached a 30-year-old Swede with five directorial credits to his name, just one of them (the atypically melodramatic Music In Darkness) a hit. Selznick proposed that Ernst Ingmar Bergman, or plain Ingmar Bergman as he was known, come and work for him. The young Swede declined, unwilling to produce a “work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically.” He wanted to instead “scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.”
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