某夭,伊利亚·卡赞(Elia Kazan)走进华纳兄弟当时的掌门人杰克·L.华纳(Jack L.Warner)的办公室,坐下,先是开了几句玩笑,然后突然说,我要拍约翰·斯坦贝克的新书。华纳不知道他说的是什么书,他没读过,也没问书的内容,只问了一句,你打算花多少钱?卡赞答,大概160万美元吧。华纳说,可以。很可能华纳最后都没有读过《伊甸园之东》的剧本,他一向是凭直觉做决 Someone Elia Kazan walked into the office of Jack L. Warner, the then head of Warner Bros., and sat down, first joking and then suddenly saying Take a new book by John Steinbeck. Warner did not know what he said, he did not read, did not ask for the content, just asked one, how much do you plan to spend? Card to answer, about 1.6 million US dollars. Warner said yes. It is possible that Warner did not finally read the script of “East of Eden,” and he has always done it by intuition