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Escape From LA Part 2: The Restaurateurs
When I first wrote Escape From LA, I confess that I never expected to write a sequel, but when you live in Dark Blue America, life comes at you fast.
Jul 22
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The Power of Movies, is a Curious Thing
...with apologies to Huey Lewis
Jul 15
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Robert Towne 1934 - 2024
I’m in the screenwriter business and so I can tell you with some authority that Robert Towne was a great screenwriter… one of the best to ever do it.
Jul 8
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The (De)Population Bomb
or... Paul Erlich goes to the movies.
Jul 1
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June 2024
GMFW at The Pipeline
I have a new piece today at The Pipeline. The assignment was to write about the Hollywood propaganda effort in support of radical environmentalism and…
Jun 24
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The Pursuit of Excellence
Amazon's Blue Angels reminds us that there are still places where excellence is the rule, rather than the exception.
Jun 10
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The Movies and Societal Collapse
At the “midpoint” of THE MATRIX (1999), a near-future sci-fi epic about a post-apocalyptic world where machines have subjugated humans and relegated…
Jun 3
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May 2024
Hollywood's "Strong Empowered Girlboss" Fallacy
There is a sense in which this is a sister essay to the one I published in late April asking the question “Where Have All The Heroes Gone?” In that…
May 27
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Ben MF Franklin On Screenwriting: JAWS (Part 3: Quint)
This is the final installment of a three part discussion of Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece JAWS from a screenwriter’s perspective. In particular we have…
May 17
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Monsters
In March, columnist Ashe Schow looked at the current generation of extremely fragile young people on America’s elite college campuses and asked the…
May 6
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April 2024
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
Perhaps you remember that a couple summers ago, TOP GUN: MAVERICK absolutely slayed the box office for an insanely long period of time. In case you…
Apr 29
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Ben MF Franklin On Screenwriting: JAWS (Part 2: Hooper)
In Part One of our discussion of JAWS from the perspective of the screenplay and the development of its characters, we discussed both the external and…
Apr 22
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