![]() The biggest reason Living is a good movie (besides Bill Nighy’s wonderful lead performance) is that Ikiru remains one of the greatest films ever made, and the original story is still deeply resonant.Īll Quiet on the Western Front faces similar hurdles. As beautiful as Ishiguro’s dialogue is, the heavy lifting on this script was already done by Kurosawa and his cowriters in the 1950s. That makes the screenplay tough to argue for here. Famed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro crafted an incredibly faithful adaptation of the original Kurosawa film: so faithful, in fact, that Living is almost a perfect scene-for-scene remake. Living is probably the easiest nominee to eliminate from contention. But let’s reverse engineer that choice by picking the nittiest of nits with the four other very good screenplays. While the opinions of Oscar voters may vary, the movie that best answers these four questions is Glass Onion. Which writer(s) do I most want to see possess an Oscar?.Which screenplay was the biggest reason the movie was good?.Which adaptation best retained the spirit of the original (while also kinda sorta doing its own thing)?.Which adaptation had the highest degree of difficulty?.How Oscar voters choose between these contenders will likely boil down to four key questions: And then there are Top Gun: Maverick and Glass Onion, which have no source materials for their stories but are considered adapted screenplays because they use already-existing characters. Living was adapted from another movie-Akira Kurosawa’s beloved 1952 film Ikiru-but the setting was shifted from postwar Tokyo to postwar London. Women Talking was adapted from a recent novel that isn’t widely known, while All Quiet on the Western Front was adapted from a classic novel that’s one of the most famous of the 20th century. It’s also a race that asks us to think about some very different types of adaptations. ![]() There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV.
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