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Post by ck100 on Aug 7, 2022 15:43:20 GMT
For every acclaimed dialogue writer like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet, we have panned dialogue writers like George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan.
Who are screenwriters who have trouble with the gift of gab?
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Post by politicidal on Aug 7, 2022 15:53:34 GMT
Friedberg and Seltzer? Apparently they wrote all their movies’ scripts.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 7, 2022 15:57:53 GMT
Writers: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, Heather Donahue: apparent illiterates who made up their own "dialogue" in The Blair Witch Project rather than write an actual script with words of more than four letters.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Aug 7, 2022 16:26:01 GMT
Good actors can sell wooden dialogue and vice versa.
Lucky Number Slevin (2006), whoever wrote that. It was like cybernetic interactions.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 7, 2022 17:38:45 GMT
Neil Breen. From firsthand experience, that shit is near impossible to spit out.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 7, 2022 17:42:21 GMT
For every acclaimed dialogue writer like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet, we have panned dialogue writers like George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan. Who are screenwriters who have trouble with the gift of gab?
Never heard that about Tarantino.
And George Lucas hadn't come to mind but when I read that I immediately thought of Mark Hamill on the Tonight Show explaining the one line he begged George to cut, 'Who talks like that, George?' lol, Harrison Ford threatening to tie him up and make him read his own lines at gunpoint, yeah, that's when you know it's bad.
I was going to go with whoever wrote Juno.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Aug 7, 2022 17:52:31 GMT
For every acclaimed dialogue writer like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet, we have panned dialogue writers like George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan. you can bash George Lucas all you want, but, other than his first film, every screenplay he ever wrote has become an ultra successful blockbuster and that's not even including the ones where he "only" wrote the story, like Raiders and Empire there are literally thousands of screenwriters that can only wish for his level of success
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Post by Archelaus on Aug 7, 2022 18:11:30 GMT
I've read critics giving James Cameron flak for his dialogue in Titanic and Avatar.
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Post by James on Aug 7, 2022 18:19:59 GMT
Rob Zombie with the profanity. He can write some fun characters but it's mostly the vulgar dialogue that is the issue.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Aug 7, 2022 18:22:20 GMT
For every acclaimed dialogue writer like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet, we have panned dialogue writers like George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan. you can bash George Lucas all you want, but, other than his first film, every screenplay he ever wrote has become an ultra successful blockbuster and that's not even including the ones where he "only" wrote the story, like Raiders and Empire there are literally thousands of screenwriters that can only wish for his level of success Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guiness, James Earl Jones...even Ewan Macgregor, they brought an amazing vision to life.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 7, 2022 22:37:33 GMT
For every acclaimed dialogue writer like Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet, we have panned dialogue writers like George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan. Who are screenwriters who have trouble with the gift of gab?
Never heard that about Tarantino.
And George Lucas hadn't come to mind but when I read that I immediately thought of Mark Hamill on the Tonight Show explaining the one line he begged George to cut, 'Who talks like that, George?' lol, Harrison Ford threatening to tie him up and make him read his own lines at gunpoint, yeah, that's when you know it's bad.
I was going to go with whoever wrote Juno.
You've never heard Tarantino acclaimed for his dialogue...? Diablo Cody is a good call. I don't think she ever got as bad as Juno again, but Juno alone is enough for the Big Leagues. |
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 7, 2022 22:47:06 GMT
Never heard that about Tarantino.
And George Lucas hadn't come to mind but when I read that I immediately thought of Mark Hamill on the Tonight Show explaining the one line he begged George to cut, 'Who talks like that, George?' lol, Harrison Ford threatening to tie him up and make him read his own lines at gunpoint, yeah, that's when you know it's bad.
I was going to go with whoever wrote Juno.
You've never heard Tarantino acclaimed for his dialogue...? Diablo Cody is a good call. I don't think she ever got as bad as Juno again, but Juno alone is enough for the Big Leagues.
No, I've heard his violence being so over the top it becomes cartoony.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 7, 2022 22:50:17 GMT
Tommy Wiseau
Donald James Parker
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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 8, 2022 0:44:21 GMT
George Lucas might not be the worst but he might be the most famous to have written bad dialogue
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 30, 2024 0:12:17 GMT
Good actors can sell wooden dialogue and vice versa. Lucky Number Slevin (2006), whoever wrote that. It was like cybernetic interactions. I just watched it last night. So fucking cutesy. A podcast I'm listening to described it as "Aaron Sorkin if he got brained with a 2x4". |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 30, 2024 2:35:31 GMT
Orci and Kurtzman
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 30, 2024 4:53:46 GMT
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, written jointly by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, have been criticized for their bad scripts and wooden dialogue. And piggybacking off of my post on James Cameron, he recently told Empire magazine: "I don't cringe on any of the dialogue but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write. You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we'll talk about dialogue effectiveness."
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Post by mgmarshall on Sept 30, 2024 9:41:26 GMT
Ed Wood
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Post by novastar6 on Oct 1, 2024 5:55:17 GMT
Who exactly do we have to thank for these little gems?
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 1, 2024 6:47:07 GMT
And piggybacking off of my post on James Cameron, he recently told Empire magazine: "I don't cringe on any of the dialogue but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write. You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we'll talk about dialogue effectiveness." As with Lucas, the success of the films have little to do with dialogue. People don't go to a Terminator film for dialogue. Take away the FX team and half the audience goes too.
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