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Zaz
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: 67. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL)
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Yes, he was excellent.
Odd that she hasn't written much else since.
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Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon
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JohnWesleyDowney posted:
JOHN WILLIAMS'S MUSIC PLAYS TO THE END.
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Zaz
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66. "JERRY MAGUIRE"
Written by Cameron Crowe
This is about the only movie I can stand Cruise in, which is a tribute to the quality of the script. It is very funny, as well.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Zaz posted:
Yes, he was excellent.
Odd that she hasn't written much else since.
After she wrote E.T., I believe Melissa Matheson was married to Harrison Ford from 1983 to 2004, so I guess she no longer needed the money. Interesting bio: http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho6/matheson_m.htm
I will hand it to Cameron Crowe, the script for Jerry Maguire was excellent.
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EDIT oops double post!
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StarDude
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Cameron Crowe is one of my favorite filmmakers. And I know a lot of it has to do that he's from my neck of the woods in Seattle.
Jerry Maguire is great, and the movie that sort of introduced me to his work. But Almost Famous is his masterpiece.
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Zaz
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Alas, Crowe's work has been variable since.
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StarDude
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Zaz posted:
Alas, Crowe's work has been variable since.
He wrote his masterpiece following Jerry Maguire -- Almost Famous. Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown aren't close to his greats like Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, and Almost Famous, but they're very good and underrated, IMO.
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I can take or leave Vanilla Sky, but I LOVE Elizabethtown. He went back to the self discovery theme he always does afetr Vanilla Sky (yes, Vanilla Sky had it too, but it just wasn't done very well.)
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65. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
Screen Story and Screenplay by Betty Comden & Adolph Green. Based on the song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
This movie came about because Arthur Freed (then a famous producer of musicals at MGM) had been a composer in the late 20's/early 30's with Nacio Herb Brown. He wanted to use his own songbook for the movie (which they did, with some additions). Comden and Green based the movie on the career of John Garfield (who *didn't* survive sound). The early montage, with Gene Kelly telling the press about his early career, and the movie showing us what actually happened, is a miracle of witty compression. It's set in the late 20's to match the music. Kelly's role was probably written for him.
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Zaz
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64. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Screenplay by James L. Brooks. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
I can't be trusted on this movie, since I mightily dislike it.
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63. Jaws by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on Benchley's novel.
Jaws is something special, in no way does the screenplay belong on this list. On paper Jaws has the potential to be a mediocre film but Speilberg and the cast turn it into something more than what it could have been. The lines in the script are cliche at times(The beginning scenes with the teens, Mayor Vaughn's rants, and Quint's story) these classic scenes from this movie could have been looked at the other way hadn't the talent been there.
Great movie? Yes. Great Screenplay? No
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Anyone familiar with the JAWS LOG, the book about the making of Jaws, knows that screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, Steven Spielberg, the main cast members and the producers ate dinner every night at Spielberg's log cabin on Martha's Vineyard and changed Gottlieb's script almost nightly. As shooting proceeded at a snail's pace due to shark problems and ocean problems, there was constant collaboration among the principles that shaped the script. Gottlieb took notes at the dinners and after everyone left stayed up all night rewriting the script. It was screenwriting and filmmaking flying by the seat of your pants.
I don't like it when a bunch of studio executives put in their two cents and ruin a script, but in this case, a group of highly creative and talented people were bunched together and what emerged was a cinematic sensation. A rare example of filmmaking-by-committee actually working.
Spielberg was definitely not shooting with a finished script, and his ability to work with everyone's contributions and fashion it into a great movie on the fly greatly impressed both his producers and the executives at Universal who were nervously watching a very expensive movie's budget explode to gigantic proportions.
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Zaz
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Hitchcock used to shape his screenplays like that, especially in the 50's.
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Drac39
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Moonstruck by John Patrick Shanley
Haven't seen it
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