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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder’s Screenwriting Tips (As told to Cameron Crowe): 1. The audience is fickle. 2. Grab ’em by the throat and never let ’em go. 3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character. 4. Know where you’re going. 5. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. 6. If you have…

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Sam Raimi

1981 THE EVIL DEAD 91 [ review ]   1985 CRIMEWAVE 10 [ review ] 1987 EVIL DEAD II 84 [ review ] 1990 DARKMAN 93 [ review ] 1992 ARMY OF DARKNESS 92 [ review ] 1995 THE QUICK AND THE DEAD 79 [ review ] 1998 A SIMPLE PLAN 92 [ review ] 1999 FOR LOVE OF THE GAME 40 [ Raimi apparently really, really loves baseball, but that still doesn’t explain his selling himself out to direct this Kevin Costner romantic comedy. It’s actually…

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