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Post by stephen on Jul 2, 2024 23:17:19 GMT
Damn. That’s unnervingly timely considering he just delivered the script for the Chinatown prequel.
Go easy, you legend.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 2, 2024 23:42:40 GMT
Damn. That’s unnervingly timely considering he just delivered the script for the Chinatown prequel. Go easy, you legend. RIP Not only the writer of my favorite movie but in the early 70s he wrote at a dizzying peak that very few matched ..........and they were all original scripts too Very few writers have affected me as much.......Mamet.........Towne...........Gerard Brach.......a few others.........a really exclusive level of genius at his best  |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 3, 2024 0:37:14 GMT
"I want you to go out there and hit the pace car."
"Hit the pace car?"
"Hit the pace car!"
"...What for?"
"You're hitting every other damn thing out there, I want you to be perfect."
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Post by ibbi on Jul 3, 2024 23:02:14 GMT
One of the great, great writers of New Hollywood, that Chinatown screenplay really is about as good as it gets, but my mind goes back to 1960 where he got his start penning and starring in Corman’s Last Woman on Earth, and how both those goddamn legends are gone within a couple of months of each other. What a run. I really hope that series turns out well and proves a fitting swan song for him.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 3, 2024 23:11:51 GMT
RIP to a legend. Did you guys know he was Charlie Hunnam's father-in-law for a very brief period of time?  |
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Post by mrimpossible on Jul 4, 2024 0:41:19 GMT
RIP.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 4, 2024 0:46:49 GMT
"If you have no talent then you have no limits. Be thankful for your limits."
RIP to a man with much, much talent. Worth saying: he had an uncredited hand in cowriting/supervising Bonnie & Clyde, McCabe & Mrs Miller, and a bit of The Godfather..... and then there's Chinatown of course. Wouldn't argue them being the four best films ever! Last Detail a masterpiece too. Mission Impossible (1 and 2) has a lot of secretively clever elements. How about an underrated script recommendation: The Tomb of Ligeia that he Poe-adapted with a lot of bizarre humor for Vincent Price & Corman.
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