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WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: 53. "All the President's Men")
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Drac39
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Date Posted:
10/2/07 7:15pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Being John Malkovich" by Charlie Kaufman )
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Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Haven't seen it
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JohnWesleyDowney
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10/2/07 8:25pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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I've seen this movie three or four times over the years. It's one of Milos Forman's best.
Never thought much about the script, but the movie worked spectacularly. Won Best Picture Oscar.
For me, this is the greatest film ever made about the subject of HUMAN JEALOUSY.
It nails it.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
10/3/07 12:37pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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A lot of complaint about how it portrays Mozart, and yes, I do know it's Salieri's POV.
Heard a joke that this movie was popular in Hollywood because it's so full of egomaniac second-raters. 
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Nrf-Hrdr
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10/3/07 2:42pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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The script is great - amazing dialogue and a bunch of classic scenes. If the characters were historically accurate then you wouldn't have a film.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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10/3/07 9:10pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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Heard a joke that this movie was popular in Hollywood because it's so full of egomaniac second-raters.
I certainly concur with that! Hollywood is the ego capital of the world.
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Zaz
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10/4/07 10:41am
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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They all sympathetized with Salieri.
Casting story: the role of Salieri was offered to Walter Matthau (!) He wanted to play Mozart. (!!)
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JohnWesleyDowney
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10/4/07 4:13pm
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Walter Matthau as SALIERI?  My God. He's a fine actor but a TERRIBLE choice for that role.
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Drac39
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10/14/07 10:36am
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer
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Thelma and Louise by Callie Khouri
Haven't seen it
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darth_frared
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Date Posted:
10/14/07 2:31pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Thelma and Louise" by Callie Khouri
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i remember liking it but i can't remember all that much about it.
i think feminists were raving about it the inevitablity of the ending and all that.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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10/14/07 5:45pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Thelma and Louise" by Callie Khouri
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It's become such an icon that most people have forgotten that it's actually a great film. The characters are all realistic and sympathetic; even our heroines ex-lovers, even Davis' utterly boorish husband, get moments to be real and human. And the part of Harvey Kietel's ever pursuing cop is so brilliantly written . . .
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Zaz
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10/14/07 9:49pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Thelma and Louise" by Callie Khouri
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Haven't seen it, and from your description, should obviously do so.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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10/17/07 10:45pm
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Thelma and Louise" by Callie Khouri
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I always thought it was a great film. And one more feather in Ridley Scott's cap.
To think he did Alien, Thelma and Louise and Gladiator! Talk about range!
I think Khouri's script was pitch perfect and the casting of Sarandon and Davis
was too. They seemed to be on the same frequency with the material.
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Drac39
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Date Posted:
11/7/07 5:32am
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "Thelma and Louise" by Callie Khouri
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Lion in the Winter by James Goldman
Seems like an off key choice, but it shows that these lists can chose movies that aren't only two or three years old
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Epicauthor
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Date Posted:
11/7/07 9:05am
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman
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Love Lion in Winter. The Screenplay is essentially the play on screen and retains much of the biting humor between the cast. It take genius to make this script work and Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn do it wonderfully.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
11/7/07 11:35am
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RE: WGA 101 Best Screenplays (Now Discussing: "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman
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Oh, God. I use this screenplay as an example of What Not To Do. Loaded with anachronisms and really clunking lines: "What shall be hang? The holly or each other?"
Each other.
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