Re: RARA-AVIS: Southern Comfort

From: Mario Taboada ( matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Date: 19 Sep 2002

<<And more generically, are most good movies based on books? >>

Not always. But they are almost always based on good screenwriters (the real auteurs, jointly with the photography crew). We should include screenwriters in the hardboiled crowd.

Regards,

MrT

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