The Writers Guild of America has elected the 101 best screenplays of all time.
And here they are, the four best scripts:
- Casablanca by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
- Chinatown by Robert Towne
- Citizen Kane by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
While i agree with them that these films are great movies and cineastical monuments of history, but there are two things i don´t really like about this election:
In the first place i think that the WGA has been a little bit unfair to later movies. Well, don´t get me wrong, as i already said these movies are great, but take a look at the list which movies are on top, none of them is younger than 30 years. I won´t say that a movie is not as good as another movie because he is older, but i do think that there are lots of younger movies that could compete with them.
Secondly i generally don´t think that it is possible to decide which movie is better than another movie. That sounds strange, and of course i think that anyone can say whether he likes movie A better than movie B, but all in all i couldn´t decide which movie is the best and which one is only second. If i had to make a list of the top ten movies i like best, i wouldn´t order them by their “greatness”, i would not order them at all, they all are my top ten movies.
Somehow even the Academy Award is more significant because they only judge movies of the last year, the big downside is that they only nominate American movies (except for the category “Best foreign movie”).
Well, enough wise talk, just to figure out how hard it is to elect the top ten movies i will make my own list of movies i like best (of course i can only judge those which i have seen, so this list might change constantly). And please note that this order has nothing to say:
- City of God
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
- Memento
- The Usual Suspects
- Pulp Fiction
- Lost in Translation
- The Constant Gardener
- The Lord of the Rings (I-III)
- American History X
Wow, ok, that was really hard, there are just so much movies i would love to put in this list… A list of the 101 best movies would be easier, but anyhow, i think it is impossible to define a particular order.
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