Ok not to sound batty or naive - but isn't Shane Black the most revolutionary writer of the past 30years or what?! Going thru "Long Kiss Goodnight" and I don't know what to do -- like do I write a spec right now or what? That's how amped I am by the ease and POWER of his wordplay...
Yeah, I felt the same way when I read LETHAL WEAPON for the first time.T here was definitely a paradigm shift in the way screenplays were written when he came upon the scene. The energy in his writing is infectious!
it's like your buddy who tells awesome stories is writing the shit! I see all these imposters out and then i go back to a script from 95 and it SONS all these newbies