(Los Angeles) The screenwriters have decided: Get out is the best movie of the 21e century, so far at least.
Members of the Writers Union of America voted this 2017 thriller directed by Jordan Peele as the best feature film of the past 21 years, topping a selection comprising 101 works in total.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, finished second on the podium, ahead of The Social Network, which traces the creation of Facebook, and the South Korean film noir Parasite, Oscar winner in 2020.
The writers’ dream collection includes genres as diverse as animated films (The Incredibles), heist films like Ocean’s Eleven, the parody documentary Borat and works combining anticipation and dreamlike Inception by Christopher Nolan.
“The very concept of” writing for the big screen “is going through an existential crisis”, underlines the screenwriters’ union on its website.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, finished second on the podium.
“The studio system has given way to the streaming where everything, whatever the source, competes for attention. This democratization of content has also changed a large number of rules, ”continues the site’s post.
“The depth of character, once strictly reserved for drama or themed film, is not out of place in a superhero movie or in a movie featuring a misbehaving bridesmaid.”
“And genres that were previously well defined, such as science fiction, horror, comedy or drama intersect freely, sometimes within a single scenario,” continues the site.
This new selection of screenwriters follows on from a previous list, produced fifteen years ago, which distinguished the legendary Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart, as the greatest screenplay of all time, followed by The Godfather.