Genius Directors/Writers of our day

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HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Monday, May 10, 2004 4:48 PM

Other than Joss/Tim/any-other genius BTVS/FF/Angel writers or directors i'm forgetting....who do you think are brilliant/genius Directors and/or Writer's of today?

My vote definately goes in for M.Night Shyamalan (i think thats how its spelled) The Sixth Sense and Signs are just great pieces of work (Unbreakable wasn't too shabby either) and i'm looking forward to his new movie coming out this year.

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LISSA

Monday, May 10, 2004 4:58 PM

I definitely agree with M. Night Shyamalan. I love 6th Sense and Signs (especially signs). I saw Unbreakable at the movie theater when it first came out and found it boring, but i just saw it on tv last week and i thought it was amazing! I think I was just too young the first time. does anyone know what year it came out?

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JADEHAND

Monday, May 10, 2004 5:08 PM

Well, he never did BTVS/FF/A but one of my current favourites is Bryan Singer. His first fim that I'm aware of was The Usual Suspects. Which comes very close to being my Favourite film. He also did Apt Pupil (which I think was a Stephen King short story) and Followed this up with the 2 X-men movies. Both of which I think were done very well. I don't agree with all the casting choices or some of the changes in the time line from the books, But they were done in a way that long time fans could get something extra from them without completely losing people who had never heard the word mutant before. IMHO.

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KELLAINA

Monday, May 10, 2004 5:14 PM

I agree with M. Night Shyamalan (he was actually the first to pop into my head). Can't wait to see The Village.

I'm going to add Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Sports Night, The American President) and Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls).

Their work may be quite different, but I love the way both of them write dialogue. Its the way I wish I could actually speak.

HEB

Monday, May 10, 2004 5:18 PM

Definitely Aaron Sorkin

WEERWOLF

Monday, May 10, 2004 8:19 PM

The guys that do/did Stargate SG1. Robert Cooper, Mallozzi and Mullie, Brad Wright especially.

M. Night Shyamalan is really good too, first move I saw was unbreakable and Sixth Sense was better than that and Signs was fantastic. They were all 'gripping' movies, they wouldn't let your attention waver one bit. I like that he puts himself in his movies too.

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SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Monday, May 10, 2004 9:39 PM

I am also in the M. Night Shyamalan camp, although I feel that "Unbreakable" is by far his best film to date.

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of "Babylon 5", would get my vote too. As would Mark Burnett, creator of "The Apprentice".

(Just kidding about that last one!)

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Monday, May 10, 2004 10:36 PM

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Originally posted by howdyrockerbaby1:
Other than Joss/Tim/any-other genius BTVS/FF/Angel writers or directors i'm forgetting....who do you think are brilliant/genius Directors and/or Writer's of today?

I'll add my vote to the Sorkin camp, also to the JMS camp. Also Stephen Poliakoff in terms of writers.

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GHOULMAN

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:41 PM

Charlie Kaufman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442109/

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ARDEN

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:50 PM

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Originally posted by Kellaina:
I'm going to add Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Sports Night, The American President) and Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls).

Their work may be quite different, but I love the way both of them write dialogue. Its the way I wish I could actually speak.

It's funny that you write this, as I recently had a conversation with a friend who is a big Gilmore Girls fan, and he mentioned that apparently when it first started airing, there were a lot of rumors that Ms. Sherman-Paladino was in fact actually Aaron Sorkin writing under a pseudonym. Apparently this was due to similarities in the rapid-fire dialogue on Sorkin's shows and Girls. Obviously this was proved untrue, but I thought it might be funny to mention.

Also, let's go ahead and add Joel and Ethan Coen to the list as both writers and directors, and the "Two Stevens" (Soderberg and Spielberg) as directors.

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