Oscar Win Validates My Top Screenplays List
Who doesn’t like a little bit of self-congratulatory backslapping? I certainly ain’t dishonest enough to deny that I do. So I’m going to slap my back and congratulate myself for listing Slumdog Millionaire as No. 1 on my list of the best screenplays of 2008 and then watching the Oscars last Sunday as it won [...]
Bad Screenwriting, Exhibit A: Max Payne
Almost all of my beloved screenplays are adaptations of some sort. My favorite action movie is Terminator 2, which is a sequel to the 1984 movie. My favorite martial arts movie is Drunken Master 2, which is a sequel as well but also pulls elements from the biography of real-life folk hero Wong Fei Hung. [...]