OPINION: Lessons For Screenwriters From Films About Writers

Films about writers, more than films about any other profession, can lay claim to accuracy. After all, who better to understand how writers think and feel than writers themselves? The writer’s job is to play God. In the modern era, stories about creators playing God stretch back to Mary Shelley’s original Frankenstein. Her full title dubbed him “the modern Prometheus.” In Greek mythology, Prometheus defied the Gods to create man out of clay and give them fire. Frankenstein defies God by creating

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