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The penultimate lecture of the 2012 series was recorded on Friday 26 October. Brian Helgeland is one of Hollywood's master screenwriters of intelligent crime film, and has won an Oscar for LA Confidential and a BAFTA nomination for Mystic River. He has also collaborated with Tony Scott (Taking of Pelham 123, Man On Fire) and Paul Greengrass.
In this lecture, Helgeland urged screenwriters to 'fight' to assert themselves in front of commissioners and executives, argued that films should be 'commercial' (that is, profitable on some level) and paid tribute to Cool Hand Luke screenwriter Frank Pierson. |