 Now Stapenhorst, who was an old professional, had once had a blackout and Stroheim had the right to write his own dialogues.And Stroheim, who used to be a great director, now saw himself as a writer and came every morning with four pages of new text and from the well-behaved version that we had struggled to find, again and again made Stroheim a sharp horror film.But the audience didn't want horror, the war was still deep in everyone's bones.