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  • Whose writing style do you admire?

    Been a while since I started a thread on DD, but I've been reading some of Walter Hill's scripts and I just love the economy he writes with. I also like the way del Toro writes, very traditional and matter-of-fact. I got bogged down on too many bells and whistles on my last script and intend to cut it out on my current one.

    Just wondering whose style you admire and the reasons why?
    @MacBullitt

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    David Goyer.

    But I can think of about a hundred screenwriters whose MOVIES I regard more highly than those Goyer has been associated with.

    You see, in screenwriting there's this huge gap between the writer's style qua style and the final functioning product we see on the screen.

    Or else Quentin Tarantino would have been tarred and feathered and ridden out of Tinseltown on a rail....

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    • #3
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      Coen Bros.

      Mamet

      David Milch

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        I went through about twenty pages where I tried to write more like Brian Duffield. It was pretty embarrassing.

        Regardless, Brian Duffield. And David Guggenheim.
        @ZOlkewicz - Don't follow me on Twitter.

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          Walter Hill.

          Bill
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            Tony Gilroy.

            MICHAEL CLAYTON is one the greatest screenplays ever written, in my opinion.

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            • #7
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              Sorkin. God damn does his dialogue just flow.

              Originally posted by Twofingeredtypist View Post
              I've been reading some of Walter Hill's scripts and I just love the economy he writes with.
              When I first started reading scripts, I went through a period of reading around 300-400 of them in a span of a couple months. The script that I got the most out of was Walter Hill's draft of ALIEN. It blew my mind.

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              • #8
                Re: Whose writing style do you admire?

                F. Scott Frazier
                Martin McDonagh
                David Twohy
                Shane Black, obvs.

                I like a lot of POW in my screenplays.
                Chicks Who Script podcast

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                  Pow?

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                    Originally posted by Dr. Vergerus View Post
                    Pow?
                    POW BANG SMASH

                    Excitement.
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                    • #11
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                      Well, based on the films, Woody Allen by a mile. Whether the actual scripts are fun to read is hard to tell because he's kind of weird about them, but he's clearly a great writer. Everyone understandably focusses on the wit but the way he structures stories is incredible - take something like Hannah and Her Sisters - if any of us tried to juggle all those characters, the script would be 1000 pages long. The film is 106 minutes.
                      My stuff

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                      • #12
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                        William Goldman is the only one that pops out as (utterly) impressive.

                        Although I've been reading Nathan Parker, and it's pitch-perfect. It's kind of my groove.
                        "...it is the thousandth forgetting of a dream dreamt a thousand times and forgotten a thousand times."
                        --Franz Kafka "Investigations Of A Dog"

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                          Originally posted by ATB View Post
                          Tony Gilroy.

                          MICHAEL CLAYTON is one the greatest screenplays ever written, in my opinion.
                          Ditto on that one.

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                            Tony Gilroy is a lesson in brevity.

                            The Watchowskis work reads like taught thriller novellas - genuinely great writers.

                            David Bennioff knows how to set & craft a scene with laser precision.
                            12 Angry Men is proof that all you need is a bunch of good actors, good characters, clear motivations and a table. -- Ben Odgren; Go into the Story

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                              Agree on Michael Clayton - superb script and I love that style. I've always admired George Gallo's work - so simple and clean but wonderful crafted and not a lot unlike Walter Hill for lean, direct writing. And others - what impresses me is when the writing and style become invisible and you become lost in the story and dialog. And Alexander Payne - the cleverness impresses me.
                              Last edited by DavidK; 11-07-2013, 03:47 AM. Reason: dash
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