Her third film, Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountain, was a critical and commercial success.
It now played like a true-life war drama where people got killed and never came back.
Mr. LeMasters himself worries that women will not watch a war drama.
The film is a Russian civil war drama, focusing on the conflict between the Reds and the Whites.
Memorial Day is an war drama directed by Joseph Sargent in 1983.
There was the possibility, too, that the majority of academy voters simply preferred the comedy to the tragic war drama.
"Then you're going to withdraw from the war drama and set up a story for him?"
Instead, it stands as one more curious episode in this most complicated of cold war dramas.
And in the midst of it all, there are love stories, war dramas and portraits of artists as violently talented men.