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Name the screenwriter

This idea just popped into my head. I don't know if there will be any interest, but this will work the same way as the name the actor/actress thread. Post shots from at least three movies a particular screenwriter has done. I'll start with an easy one.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eoSPKSIxeek/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JXq2nnnhqRw/maxresdefault.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BUiV8-BID.../hardcore2.png

The great Paul Schrader. American Gigolo, Raging Bull, and Hardcore.

NEXT (also easy):

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Indeed. Catch-22, What's Up, Doc? and To Die For

The middle shot is from the '76 version of A Star is Born, which makes the answer John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion?

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It's only the one guy. Your turn.

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Claire, to me, this seems very hard. How would we know who the screenwriter is? (Obviously, posters above me know.)

Don’t think I would know a screenwriter if I fell over her.

Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2097886)

The middle shot is from the '76 version of A Star is Born, which makes the answer John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion?

John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion were husband and wife. They wrote all three of those films - A Panic in Needle Park, A Star is Born, and Up Close and Personal - together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NaRJQzXiM

Originally Posted by Stirchley (Post 2097979)

Claire, to me, this seems very hard. How would we know who the screenwriter is? (Obviously, posters above me know.)

Don’t think I would know a screenwriter if I fell over her.

It's another variation of movie still identification. If you can identify one of the three movies you can identify the screenwriter. If you don't know who wrote the movie you recognize look it up. In that sense is it any different than the other games? It's just grouping the movies differently.

Gideon's batch is the screenwriting team of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
Society Lawyer + Easter Parade + Lady in the Dark

NEXT

Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 2097994)

If you don't know who wrote the movie you recognize look it up. In that sense is it any different than the other games? It's just classifying the movies differently.

So it’s not based on knowledge. It’s based on how fast one can google it.

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All of these games are like that, especially as they have gone on longer and all the brand names have been done more than once. I happen to know a lot of screenwriters by name and their credits, but the ones Gideon pulled already I didn't know off the top of my head. But I recognized Easter Parade and Lady in the Dark. From there it's a really quick trip to the IMDb to get their names and for me to figure out the third flick.

But if you don't want to play that way you don't have to. For those of us who like these games it's fun to at least see, oh, I didn't realize the same person who wrote such and such also wrote that or I forgot they did that early in their career or whatever. If that level of movie trivia doesn't interest you that is both fine and dandy.

Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 2097997)

Gideon's batch is the screenwriting team of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
Society Lawyer + Easter Parade + Lady in the Dark

NEXT

Don't recognize that shot of William Atherton but the middle shot looks like Bruce Dern in Coming Home, which would make the answer Waldo Salt?

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Correct.
Waldo Salt
The Day of the Locust, Coming Home, and The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqwoE2u1c88

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Whenever he gets around to it, Holden should know this one.

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Are we waiting indefinitely for Holden to get this?

Well, I don't know if it will help, but here are two more shots from movies written by the same screenwriter:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-p...een_medium.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nzsAA...aZE/s-l400.jpg

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I give up. How about a reveal?

It's Casey Robinson...you take a turn, Claire

OK, we've got Clint, Chevy, and Paul LeMat but I don't recognize any of the movies.

The top shot is Risky Business and the bottom is Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and I know Risky Business was written and directed by Paul Brickman?

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Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2099380)

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GGDEPN/wen...rge-GGDEPN.jpg

https://images.mubicdn.net/images/fi....jpg?size=740x

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/imag...1170763729.jpg

The bottom picture is from Move Over, Darling starring James Garner and Doris Day.

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It is Jack Sher, Claire, your turn

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i recognized the bottom shot from The Girl on the Train because I just saw it about a month ago. The screenplay is by Erin Cressida Wilson.

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It is Ernest Lehman, Claire, your turn

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Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2101260)

https://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/4269-3.jpg

https://images.justwatch.com/backdro.../just-visiting

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aUFzngANOUQ/hqdefault.jpg

The top picture looks like it might be from one of the Beethoven movies.

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It is John Hughes, Claire, your turn

Pretty sure the middle shot is from Deep Impact, which would make the answer Bruce Joel Rubin?

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It is Robert Towne, again, you're up.

Don't recognize anything here

Originally Posted by Claireofthemoon (Post 2102152)

https://bit.ly/2CCGpDf
https://bit.ly/2Z03qHD

https://bit.ly/2NpVLgu

I think the top picture might be Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow.

Originally Posted by gbgoodies (Post 2102341)

I think the top picture might be Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow.

It is.

If the top shot is indeed from Sleepy Hollow, then the answer has to be Kevin Yagher?

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The first shot is Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, the second is Benicio Del Toro as The Wolfman, and the third pic isn't showing for me. But those two projects alone mean the answer is...
Andrew Kevin Walker
Bets known as the screenwriter of SE7EN and 8mm

I met him at a film festival back in the '90s. Super chill, very nice.

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Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2102580)

Luc Besson?

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A Walk Among the Tombstones + Heaven's Prisoners + The Flight of the Phoenix remake =
Scott Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuRDxzitek

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it is Stanley Shapiro, Claire, your turn

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Then can we have another screenshot? You only gave us two

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There are three up there but here's a couple more.

https://bit.ly/2Vk3JvG

https://i.imgur.com/toNp5PU.jpg

Only the shot of Denver Pyle is showing here, but it looks like Bonnie and Clyde where the screenplay was by David Newman and Robert Benton

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Well you named one of the writers. It was David Newman. Your turn.

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Cary Grant in the top shot and Joan Crawford in the last. That's all I got.

Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2103321)

https://cdn.britannica.com/09/77309-...nely-Heart.jpg

Originally Posted by Claireofthemoon (Post 2103350)

Cary Grant in the top shot and Joan Crawford in the last. That's all I got.

I'm pretty sure that the Cary Grant picture is from the movie None But the Lonely Heart, but I don't recognize the other two pictures.

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Is it Clifford Odets?

It is Clifford Odets, Claire, your turn

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Peckinpah's The Killer Elite + William Wyler's The Liberation of L.B. Jones + the outrageously stupid hallucination scene from Irwin Allen's The Swarm =
Stirling Silliphant

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Told you it was easy...you're up.

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I recognize the Gone in 60 Seconds remake and High Fidelity, so Scott Rosenberg

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Yeppers. You got it.

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The Running Man + 48 Hrs. + Hudson Hawk =
Steven E. de Souza

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