Whats the best script youve read [Archive] - Absolute Write Water Cooler

WritingFool

07-19-2005, 04:55 PM

Feel like reading some scripts, anyone recommend their favorites. Leaning more towards action/adventure crime scripts.
Recommend away.

Nicholas S.H.J.M Woodhouse

07-19-2005, 05:38 PM

For crime scripts I recommend Chinatown and possibly The Killing.

Writer1

07-19-2005, 05:39 PM

For action/crime/drama...LETHAL WEAPON, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and THE USUAL SUSPECTS are good examples.

nganok

07-20-2005, 02:32 AM

For action/crime/drama...LETHAL WEAPON, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and THE USUAL SUSPECTS are good examples.

Silence of the Lambs
Shawshank Redemption
Seven
Big Fish

Fin!

07-23-2005, 10:20 AM

Pulp Fiction and Casablanca

The ImagiNation

07-24-2005, 05:47 AM

Silence of the Lambs
Shawshank Redemption
Seven
Big Fish

I have to agree with Seven. I read it yesterday and it was amazing.

fedorable1

07-24-2005, 06:06 AM

Braveheart
A Few Good Men
Man in the Iron Mask

The ImagiNation

07-24-2005, 06:22 AM

Can someone help me out with a good Thriller/on the edge of your seat kind of screenplay?

nganok

07-25-2005, 08:52 AM

Can someone help me out with a good Thriller/on the edge of your seat kind of screenplay?

The Negotiator
LA Confidential- great screenplay

GonnaBeFamous

07-28-2005, 12:10 AM

The best script I've read was mine so far. I feel that good about it at this point after a 6 week rewrite. It has some minor flaws in dialogue etc, but the story and the comedy value are priceless. This is it.

Oh you wanted commerical scripts? ehh, I haven't really liked any of them that well to recommend one, I hate reading other peoples scripts, i'd rather write my own. :(

zagoraz

07-28-2005, 12:46 AM

You said you liked Ghost World. You said you liked Spun. You mentioned Buffalo 66. You've never read any of these scripts? You should. Reading other people's scripts is essential to learning the craft. I read at least two or three a week (they're easily found on the net) and I have a library of my favorites at home in hard copy (Sling Blade, The Big Lebowski, Slacker, etc.). You're doing yourself a disservice by not reading scripts. Other people's scripts are as vital to a screenwriter as medical textbooks are to a would-be doctor in medical school. Just my opinion.

GonnaBeFamous

07-28-2005, 01:56 AM

You said you liked Ghost World. You said you liked Spun. You mentioned Buffalo 66. You've never read any of these scripts? You should. Reading other people's scripts is essential to learning the craft. I read at least two or three a week (they're easily found on the net) and I have a library of my favorites at home in hard copy (Sling Blade, The Big Lebowski, Slacker, etc.). You're doing yourself a disservice by not reading scripts. Other people's scripts are as vital to a screenwriter as medical textbooks are to a would-be doctor in medical school. Just my opinion.

WEll i read the first pages of ghost world, couldn't find the damn script to the movie spun, never read buffalo 66 but I think I'll make that on my to do list. I'm also reading a persons full script here as they revise it, haven't read that all the way through probablywill today though. I have to force myself to read scripts. :)

Annabanana

08-02-2005, 07:21 AM

Structurally, MIDNIGHT RUN can't be beat.