William Goldman Dies; Oscar Winning Writer Of ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid’ Was 87

deadline ^ | 11/16/2018 | Mike Fleming Jr

[EveningStar]

Silent Generation

[karnage]

RIP. A great, great screenwriter. Coined the immortal term, referring to the “experts” in the movie business: “Nobody knows anything.”

Pure genius.

[Mears]

Yep,Silent Generation——and someone wrote a book calling us The Lucky Generation-——and we were.

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[Borges]

He wrote a blistering take down of “Saving Private Ryan’...

http://achtenblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/saving-private-ryan-goldman-essay.html

[ifinnegan]

I didn’t know that, thanks.

I will read it.

[minnesota_bound]

ping

[minnesota_bound]

I had never liked the Private Ryan movie starting with the beginning where US soldiers kill unarmed German soldiers when they were prisoners. Spielberg supports the democrat party and will make America look bad when he can.

[Borges]

Thanks for pinging me to my own post. :)

[Borges]

That was towards the end actually. You think his goal with that film was to make American servicemen look bad...

[EveningStar]

Thanks. I loved the essay. BTW, I never saw the movie. From what others said about it, it sounded too violent.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/16/2018. Thanks Borges.

Butch wrote some unknown number of letters to people back in the states. Of those which are known to have survived, not even one postdates the shootout in Bolivia on November 7, 1908. That's not a coincidence. He had a lookalike brother who (like the rest of the family) amounted to nothing, who in later years visited old friends he and "Butch" had had in common in their youth, and passed himself off as Butch.

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