ESB was co-written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. I think it's far and away the best of them, and I attribute much of that to Leigh Brackett, who was a brilliant writer, both of novels and screenplays, including "The Long Goodbye" and "Rio Bravo," plus she held Faulkner's hand when he worked on "The Big Sleep."
Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
'Beneath You'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2004 4:38:37 pm PDT #2422 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Barry Woodward - Sep 29, 2004 4:40:29 pm PDT #2423 of 10001
I fought the law and I won!
Leigh Brackett also took a pass at the first Star Wars as well. However it was Harrison Ford who came up with the best line in Empire. Just before Han was frozen in carbonite Leia says "I love you." and Han was supposed to say "I love you too." but Ford improvised "I know."
Betsy HP - Sep 29, 2004 4:47:47 pm PDT #2424 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Padme : We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.
Anakin : I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
Kristen - Sep 29, 2004 4:48:20 pm PDT #2425 of 10001
So Tim wrote Phantom Menace too, huh?
Okay that's just blasphemy.
Someone get me a rail. I need to run Kristin out of thread on it.
Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2004 4:48:38 pm PDT #2426 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Vader: Luke, I don't like sand.
Luke: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Betsy HP - Sep 29, 2004 4:49:03 pm PDT #2427 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Vowel fight! Vowel fight! It's the Battle of the Kr[i,e]stens!
DavidS - Sep 29, 2004 4:50:04 pm PDT #2428 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ESB was co-written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. I think it's far and away the best of them, and I attribute much of that to Leigh Brackett, who was a brilliant writer, both of novels and screenplays, including "The Long Goodbye" and "Rio Bravo," plus she held Faulkner's hand when he worked on "The Big Sleep."
More germane, she was a veteran of space opera from the pulps like Planet Stories. Which was a more swashbuckling/not so scientific pulp. Now if only CL Moore could've worked on a few episodes of Farscape...
Mr. Broom - Sep 29, 2004 4:50:25 pm PDT #2429 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I declare P-C thread winner.
Ginger - Sep 29, 2004 4:53:55 pm PDT #2430 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Now if only CL Moore could've worked on a few episodes of Farscape...
Amen.
Or if Leigh Brackett, with her sf and the screenwriting chops, could have lived to write post-Star Wars films.
Pix - Sep 29, 2004 4:55:36 pm PDT #2431 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Kristen, you're right. It was blasphemy.
But fun!