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5 Best Written Films
I would be aghast at this idea of not liking Kicking and Screaming, but I don’t like plenty of things that everyone else loves. Network, for one. Also, the Bible.Not a scientific list, and probably missing a bunch, but I have a hard to pin down idea in my mind. Not improv, director or specifically actor driven. Something about tone, structure, dialogue and characterization that just feels written. Also, I think movie adaptations of plays don’t count.
1. In Bruges
2. Kicking and Screaming
3. Chinatown
4. Breaking Away
5. Annie Hall (Sort of made in the editing bay, but whatever)I’d throw Network on that list, but then again, some people think that movie is over written.
Also, I never liked Kicking and Screaming… unless you mean the Will Ferrell version, in which case, I didn’t see it. IT MIGHT BE BRILLIANT FOR ALL I KNOW!
This will sound totally strange, since it’s mostly a shaggy-dog-who’s-had-too-much-weed story, but The Big Lebowski is actually very well written. It’s really hard to get characters to sound, well, like real people, and for different ones to talk differently—most of the time, all characters end up sounding like the screenwriter. Listen to the way people talk in Lebowski. Listen to how different they sound. That’s rare, good writing.
