The top 20. The scripts by which all others are defined and to which all others are compared. Brilliant scripts can be wordy. Brilliant scripts can be confusing. Brilliant scripts can be sweeping or intimate. This section runs the gamut, ranging from first time writers to established writing vets. It only gets better from here.
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20. Easy Rider (1969)
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern
They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.
This portion’s “anybody can write a film” segment comes from 1969, with a landmark film that truly doesn’t have much weight. A road movie if there ever was one, Easy Rider follows Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) as they ride their motorcycles across the country to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
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20. Easy Rider (1969)
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern
They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.
This portion’s “anybody can write a film” segment comes from 1969, with a landmark film that truly doesn’t have much weight. A road movie if there ever was one, Easy Rider follows Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) as they ride their motorcycles across the country to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
- 3/12/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Cue Scott Joplin music and prepare to have tons of fun with Newman, Redford, and director George Roy Hill. The trio captures much of the magic that happened with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as capturing Oscar gold. The con is on. Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) is an up and coming con man under the tutelage of Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones). When the duo pull a con and get the purse of gangster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) he orders that they two get rubbed out for the offense. Only Luther gets killed and Hooker is on the run. He runs to more experienced con man Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) to plan revenge against...
- 6/4/2012
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
Chicago, the Great Depression. Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his long time cohort Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) run an unexpectedly successful street hustle, unwittingly grabbing thousands of dollars from a foot soldier of Robert Shaw’s Doyle Lonnegan, who was on his way to drop the money off. Lonnegan decides to send a message by having Luther killed and Hooker knows his card is marked too. Vowing revenge, Hooker joins forces with Paul Newman’s veteran con-artist Henry Gondorff to plan and execute the eponymous sting on Lonnegan, but the police and FBI are closing in on everyone and Hooker may have to betray Gondorff to save his own neck.
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Evidence that every now and then the Oscars do get it right, The Sting’s win for Best Picture in 1974, even up against Friedkin’s The Exorcist, was wholly merited. Although written by a relatively untried screenwriter (David S. Ward...
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Evidence that every now and then the Oscars do get it right, The Sting’s win for Best Picture in 1974, even up against Friedkin’s The Exorcist, was wholly merited. Although written by a relatively untried screenwriter (David S. Ward...
- 6/4/2012
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This 1966 drama ticks most of the right boxes when it comes to entertaining as well as educating. Pity they didn't let Thomas More be more scatalogical than saintly
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Sir Thomas More was a lawyer and scholar at the court of King Henry VIII. As a devout Catholic, he had serious reservations about the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and remarriage to Anne Boleyn. He was found guilty of high treason and executed in 1535. In 1935, he was canonised as St Thomas More.
Marriage
Luck and Tudor obstetrics have failed to provide Henry with a son. He blames the queen, and wants to dump her. Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) is summoned to Hampton Court to see the chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles). "England needs an heir!" bellows the spherical cardinal, resembling, in his bright scarlet robes and pointy hat, The Attack of the Killer Tomato.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Sir Thomas More was a lawyer and scholar at the court of King Henry VIII. As a devout Catholic, he had serious reservations about the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and remarriage to Anne Boleyn. He was found guilty of high treason and executed in 1535. In 1935, he was canonised as St Thomas More.
Marriage
Luck and Tudor obstetrics have failed to provide Henry with a son. He blames the queen, and wants to dump her. Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) is summoned to Hampton Court to see the chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles). "England needs an heir!" bellows the spherical cardinal, resembling, in his bright scarlet robes and pointy hat, The Attack of the Killer Tomato.
- 11/19/2009
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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