I assume you use the phrase "screenwriter" to describe DLB only in the loosest of ways: Ron Nyswaner is widely credited with the "rewrite" that won DLB his Oscar. The fact that J. Edgar is so so dreadful, might have something more to do with the fact that DLB's "triumph" was something of a strawman's.
Also, DLB's "romance" can really be read as code for more gay marriage propaganda - nothing against gay marriage ie., b.c. of "morality" - but as conceived of by rich, white bois like DLB, its basis in elitism is what's more offensive. The value of "marriage" for people like DLB is that married people get privileges like health insurance whereas the rest of us can go fuck ourselves - romantically, that is
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I assume you use the phrase "screenwriter" to describe DLB only in the loosest of ways: Ron Nyswaner is widely credited with the "rewrite" that won DLB his Oscar. The fact that J. Edgar is so so dreadful, might have something more to do with the fact that DLB's "triumph" was something of a strawman's.
Also, DLB's "romance" can really be read as code for more gay marriage propaganda - nothing against gay marriage ie., b.c. of "morality" - but as conceived of by rich, white bois like DLB, its basis in elitism is what's more offensive. The value of "marriage" for people like DLB is that married people get privileges like health insurance whereas the rest of us can go fuck ourselves - romantically, that is