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Robert Towne. In 1971 Robert Towne declined Robert Evans’ offer of $175,000 to adapt The Great Gatsby, opting to take $25,000 for an original screenplay on which he was working. The inspiration came from a Los Angeles vice cop who told him that when he was in Chinatown he did “as little as possible.”. Towne won an Oscar for Chinatown in ...
Apr 15, 1982 · April 15, 1982. Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Robert Towne, Los Angeles, California, 1981 George Rose/Getty. From the start, Robert Towne, widely regarded as the premier screenwriter of his ...
In Robert Towne's screenwriting career, The Godfather 's patio scene is one in a series of telling, bittersweet moments. Towne's is a dark, uncaring world, but one of the things that makes his vision so penetrating is that it is so complete. In the Towne universe, life may be mostly hopeless, but not completely so.
Top 10 Robert Towne Films. 1. The Last Detail (1973) R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama. Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James. Votes: 27,645 | Gross: $3.19M.
Jul 1, 2016 · Writer Robert Towne so hated the finished 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes' that he put his dog’s name on the credits. As the new 'The Legend of Tarzan' opens, director Hugh ...
Feb 24, 2016 · Towne’s scripts are known to diverge from screenwriting traditions. Especially when it comes to what might seem like small details, he is known for preferring the authentic to the poetic. Weiner mentioned the frequent mispronunciation of Gittes’ name as a particularly amusing example of this because it’s a common reality that “people ...
Jul 18, 2021 · Chinatown is a 1974 neo-noir film that was written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski, and starred Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. The film follows the story of a private investigator who becomes embroiled in a far-reaching conspiracy. Over the years, Chinatown has become regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
