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Screenwriting: Takes on LA Noir
Screenwriting as an art form, through scenes from Double Indemnity, The Long Goodbye and Pulp Fiction and how each reworks film noir conventions.
Leigh Brackett gave her papers to Eastern New Mexico University in the 1970s. That archive also holds her early draft of what became The Empire Strikes Back, and for this gallery the museum asked it specifically for material from her work on The Long Goodbye.
Brackett's 1973 script sits between two others set in Los Angeles: Double Indemnity (1944), by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and Pulp Fiction (1994), by Quentin Tarantino. The gallery presents scenes from each, so you follow similar subjects, themes and settings through three writers working fifty years apart. Between them, the museum says, they established, updated and subverted the conventions of film noir.
Come for the writing: the museum's case is that a screenplay is an art form, not just a blueprint. It's in the Wanda Gallery on level 2, free with museum admission ($25 for adults). The museum is open 10am to 6pm, closed Tuesdays, with discounted entry after 4:30pm.
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- Screenwriting: Takes on LA NoirCourtesy of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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