The best screenwriters in film history

As the teacher Akira Kurosawa said, it is possible for a film with a good script and a bad director to have a passable result, but a bad script will never have a solution even with the best of directors. The writing profession is little considered in the industry and also in popular culture. A practical example of this is that everyone knows who Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino is, but few people consider writing figures such as Paul Schrader or Aaron Sorkin in their memory. In the recent history of the industry, this discontent was seen in the North American strike that the group carried out in 2007/08 to equate their salary with the compensation obtained by the large studios as a result of the productions. A strike that lasted almost 100 days and in which several movies and series were affected. To vindicate his figure and get some of their names memorized, we are going to review the best screenwriters in the history of cinema. Ben Hecht, “the first great screenwriter” If the script were a religion, Ben Hecht would surely be its messiah . He was the first screenwriter to win the Oscar for best story (predecessor of the current award for best screenplay) for The Law of the Underworld in 1927. If we review all the stories that Hecht wrote and collaborated on, it is possible to realize the magnitude that it reached in his time. Scarface, Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights, With Skirts Already Crazy or Remember are just some of the masterpieces that he signed with his typewriter. Totally different stories and genres that have influenced hundreds of filmmakers and writers over the years, being considered still today as one of the best screenwriters.Leigh Brackett improved even a Nobel Prize Winner for literature film set of “The Eternal Dream”, Leigh Brackett in the center of the image, reviews the script annotations A pioneering figure of the script among women, at a time when hardly they could develop any professional activity that was not to which the society and the man had accustomed it. Regular author of Pulp novels, they tell the stories that Howard Hawks called her (thought to be a man) to improve on the script that William Faulkner had written for The Eternal Sleep. He re-collaborated with Hawks on Rio Bravo and wrote the highest-rated film in the George Lucas universe, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. IAL Diamond and Billy Wilder’s inseparable comedy Billy Wilder (left) Diamond (right) Humor and Comedy intelligent mixed with the drama that Diamond wrote contributed among other things to the creation of figures like Woody Allen. So it is impossible to see The Apartment or One, Two Three and not think about its director (who co-wrote stories with him for 25 years) and the legacy of today’s humorous cinema.Hunting for Dalton TrumboTrumbo is an essential screenwriter for transforming the peplum that was to be Spartacus into something great, romantic and even epic. But above all it is a perfect example of how to resist a witch hunt in the middle of Hollywood. Trumbo for a time could not sign with his name several of the stories that would win important awards such as the Oscar for best screenplay for Roman Holidays. He won another statuette for Bravo, a 1956 film Aaron Sorkin is among the best current screenwriters for having an unmistakable stamp.The characters he creates spit out their lines of dialogue with an intelligence that seems to take us to a tennis match. Winner of the Oscar for best screenplay adapted by The social network and nominated twice more for the award with Moneyball and Molly’s game, it seems that Sorkin is notably getting carried away by the direction with proposals such as The Trial of 7.