Screenwriter

Akira Kurosawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan on March 23, 1910 and died September 6, 1998 at the age of 88 of a stroke. Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who to this day is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa began his journey in the Japanese film industry in 1936, after a brief pursuit of painting. Kurosawa debut as a directer after many years of working on films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, with his…

Tiffany’s through the lens of Henry Mancini’s music choices we can see that Mancini’s music choices were just as important as Blake Edwards, director. Many people like to think that the directors of a film are the ‘authors’ of a film compared to screenwriters but Mancini challenges that theory, especially with his work in Touch of Evil and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In these two…

In True West, Sam Shepard offers a different idea to the traditional American Dream that is taught in so much of our life and literature. It is a piece that features a great deal of symbolism to figuratively give meaning to its production. Examples of symbolism are discovered all over the play and one great example of symbolism could be seen in Austin, Lee’s younger brother. We see Austin wearing a “light blue sports shirt” with “clean blue jeans” and “white tennis shoes.” Clothes say a great…

For the script, I chose to read Blood Simple by Coen Brothers. The story is about a man hires a private investigator to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover, and it involves a lot of double crossing. It is quite impressive for the Coen brothers to figure out a way to connect all the characters through double crossings and still manage to write a story that the actions characters made all make sense. A lot of films’ plot do not stand up with scrutiny, and Coen brothers provide logical…

Best Documentary Feature for 1997's American historical documentary film - 4 Little Girls. While the 85 year old Madison, Wisconsin born actress - Gena Rowlands, who with her late husband John Cassavetes (Greek-American actor, film director and screenwriter) is widely credited with creating the model for American indie cinema, is a two-time Best Actress nominee for her and her husband's monumental film A Woman Under the Influence, and again for a Gena Rowlands' turn in his movie Gloria in 1980.…

Sam Robert explains how McCarthyism turned Americans against each other in the decade after World War II by creating fear on every single one of them, because they were either involved with Communism or knew someone who was. According to Robert “screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers were dragged before the House Un-American Activities Committee and asked to “name names” of colleagues who had Communist ties or sympathies” (par. 13). In other words, men and women were asked to expose…

and impulsivity, the characters make poor choices influencing their future. Sunday is supposed to be the day of rest, but ironically, for the main characters, it is the most eventful day of the week in their lives. Joel Coles is a 28 year old screenwriter whose life…

“The class is in the eye of the beholder.” Especially in the book entitled Past Imperfect which follows the lives of rich and powerful people. The book was written by Julian Fellowes. Julian Fellowes was born in Egypt where his father worked in the British Embassy. He grew up in England and attended Cambridge where he enrolled to drama school. He was a “part-time actor for ages” and had appearances for more than 40 movies and TV shows. In the middle for his career in acting, Fellowes…

William Irish). Alfred Hitchcock, who was a longtime fan of Woolrich's pulp thrillers, was taken by the piece, but his goal in adapting it for the screen was to unify the narrative. Jeff doesn't have a girlfriend in Woolrich's version - Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes added that in. They also invented Jeff's job as a photojournalist, thinking that it would ease his transition into a voyeur. Besides that, the final plot of Rear Window remains fairly close to Woolrich's original…

INTRODUCTION No matter the book and genre, any fictional work has a narrator – a person or in some cases an object, who retells the events of the story. When reading a literary work, the reader can specify what the narrator is like just by the clues given by the author. It can be added that the narrator and the author is not the same person. There are various types of narrators and narrative, which will be described in the present research. The present paper is devoted to the role of…