Avarice Deceit Connivance and Revenge: Two Twisty Crime Screenplays - E-book - ePub

Imagine two twisty crime screenplays turned into feature-length movies starring Avarice, Deceit, Connivance and Revenge. I hope you agree this would be a better use of talent and financing than the production of yet one more film in which agitated alien robots turn themselves into trucks. Avarice, deceit, connivance and revenge - such vile human traits. And the stuff of so many entertaining Hollywood movies, from the beginning ("Freaks, " "The Thin Man"), through the golden age ("Double Indemnity, " "The Maltese Falcon"), to the present ("House of Games, " "The Usual Suspects, " "LA Confidential").
Yet in recent years, the medium has increasingly become a fountainhead for CGI-dominated wet-dreams, full-length movie versions of mediocre television shows, and money-harvesting sequels that diminish in quality with each iteration. Allow me to tempt you with the log-lines of the screenplays. First, determined to marry his mistress, a Machiavellian architect enlists three associates in a complex scheme to murder his wife - and each other.
And second, after a professional mediator is conned by identical twin businessmen who sought her help to resolve a dispute, she meets another woman in a suspiciously similar circumstance, and the two team up to take down the con artists. No explosions, dinosaurs or fart jokes. Just delicious lex talionis.