Post by Salzmank on Sept 13, 2017 15:40:40 GMT
When thinking of names I sometimes blur the distinction between the novelist and the screenwriter. Sometimes it's the same person but very often not. The IMDB does the same thing with a general category for "Writer"; see Elmore Leonard, where you have to look at each title line to see "based on a novel by" or "screenplay".
(BTW: Jackie Brown is the only Tarantino film I enjoy and I credit Leonard for that).
As for his pet peeve: I'll try to delve into this subject when I have more time, but--while I sympathize--in general, especially in movies made before the modern era, I tend to see the director (working within studio constraints, naturally) as the final decider and shaper of a film. (Even Goldman has commented on this fact himself in several of his hilarious Hollywood books; the writer exists in a director's world.) With that said, I agree (1) that that's only a general tendency (we make this ridiculous mistake of assuming that all directors are auteurs, when many modern directors are anything but) and (2) that writers, cinematographers, editors, and the rest all certainly deserve their due.
Which is the raison d'être for this thread, in fact!
