{"id":19037,"date":"2020-02-03T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/?p=19037"},"modified":"2020-02-09T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:33:46","slug":"oscars-2020-list-story-expert-john-truby-reveals-best-movies-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyovation.com\/2020\/02\/03\/oscars-2020-list-story-expert-john-truby-reveals-best-movies-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2020: A-List Story Expert John Truby reveals his picks for Best Movies of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Oscar week<\/strong> and what better way to celebrate the best (and the worst) of this year’s movies<\/strong> than by having A-list Story Expert John Truby<\/strong> break down the movies we’ve all seen this year.<\/p>\n

His expert opinion reveals which movies deserve our love and respect; and which movies should have been ignored.<\/p>\n

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1. Parasite \u2013 Bong Joon Ho and Jin Wan Han (original)<\/h3>\n

A transcendent crime story that balances the books on the inherently corrupt capitalist\/class system. With elements that go back as far as Crime and Punishment<\/em> and High and Low<\/em>, this film uses a structural sequence similar to the old proverb, \u201cFor want of a nail the shoe was lost\u2026\u201d What is unique here is not the crime or the punishment, but how weird the karmic trip is to get to the punishment. The real crime will be if the Parasite<\/em> script loses Best Screenplay to Marriage Story<\/em>, 1917<\/em>, or Once Upon a Time In Hollywood<\/em>, which aren\u2019t in the same league as this original work.<\/p>\n

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2. Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi (adapted)<\/h3>\n

A black comedy\/satire about a ten-year-old Nazi youth whose imaginary friend is Hitler. It\u2019s Moonrise Kingdom in Nazi Germany, and that\u2019s what makes it work so well. Some will feel that you can\u2019t make light of the Nazis and especially not of Hitler. But by showing the phenomenon through the eyes of a young believer, Waititi has given us an emotional understanding of how ideology corrupts a mind and how encountering the Other in the flesh can defeat it.<\/p>\n

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3. Brittany Runs A Marathon \u2013 Paul Downs Calaizzo (original)<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled. This isn\u2019t an addiction story. The surprising character work makes all characters both likeable and unlikeable, with witty dialogue and a big emotional payoff. That alone makes the plot more interesting than better known bloated epics that hit the same beat for 3 \u00bd hours. The sleeper picture of the year.<\/p>\n

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4. Bombshell \u2013 Charles Randolph (original, based on a true story)<\/h3>\n

This hard-hitting and surprisingly funny expos\u00e9 tracks Roger Ailes\u2019s sexual harassment of three women at Fox News. If you didn\u2019t already know that Ailes was one of the most despicable and destructive human beings in the history of the United States \u2013 which suggests you must have been a captive of Planet Fox News \u2013 this gives detailed proof. It also shows the depth of moral corruption of Ailes\u2019s minions, including a number of female enablers like his executive secretary and his wife. The worst part of the film is that it makes Megyn Kelly too heroic, with only a brief attack on her for her years of silence while this bastard continued abusing women. The best part of the film is that it shows that sexual harassment isn\u2019t just something women have to get over, or it only happens to attractive women, though all three of these actresses are. It cripples and destroys women\u2019s lives, and I don\u2019t know a single woman who hasn\u2019t experienced it. Men like Roger Ailes are cowards, liars, bullies, and killers of souls and they should all go to jail for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

5. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood \u2013 Tom Junod, Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue (adapted)<\/h3>\n

A film with one of the more bizarre and creative story structures I\u2019ve seen in years packs great cumulative emotional power. It\u2019s really a traveling angel story with Mr. Rogers as the angel. And he\u2019s a lot more complex than you might think.<\/p>\n

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6. Knives Out – Rian Johnson (original)<\/h3>\n

Television is built on the detective genre and does it extremely well. So Knives Out<\/em> had to meet a high standard. It does, flipping the form in a number of ways, some brilliantly, others not. But it\u2019s enough to make this one of the few true detective stories to get to the big screen since LA Confidential<\/em>. If you love the form, you should see this. If not, it will come across as a lot of convoluted sound and fury, signifying nothing.<\/p>\n

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7. Little Women – Greta Gerwig (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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An actor\u2019s version of the classic that puts a premium on grand gestures. This film is structured around a series of buzzing household moments and girls hugging. It begins with a confusing framing device and meanders on two separate time lines. About halfway through, it funnels to the love story and catches fire. The ending is quite moving. I could have done without the meta moment, but this is a real achievement for Greta Gerwig as a writer. As an aside, I find it fascinating how much Louisa May Alcott was influenced by Jane Austen. Aren\u2019t we all.<\/p>\n

8. The Irishman – Steve Zaillian (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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The Irishman<\/em> hits the same beats, ad infinitum, as Scorcese\u2019s past gangster stuff, but it doesn\u2019t compare to Goodfellas<\/em> in depicting the process of people being sucked into crime and slavery. Why? For one thing, Goodfellas<\/em> is a screenwriting masterpiece. This is not. The moral investigation in The Irishman<\/em> is not compelling because from the beginning this guy has no moral problem with murder. Therefore, his self-questioning at the end has little emotional resonance. If you kill people for a living, eventually you are going to feel bad when you have to kill someone you care about. The daughter\u2019s moral attack has almost no effect because she is rarely seen throughout the story. Had the writer (and director, since he gets all the credit anyway) spent less time hitting the same beat of Jimmy Hoffa vs. the mob and more on the costs to the hero and his family, the moral accounting could have paid off big time.<\/p>\n

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9. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino (original)<\/h3>\n

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A movie combining a fake western and a real western, a fake hero and a real hero. Which sounds intriguing, except that it\u2019s not played out dramatically. With so much time spent driving around town, watching movies, hanging out in backstage Hollywood, the episodic first half is a snore. It gets interesting when Brad goes to the ranch, funneling to the final obligatory Tarantino gore in the showdown. But even the good stuff is not that good. What\u2019s the point? Though I could say the same thing about most Tarantino movies, especially the last few. I guess it\u2019s just fun being back in 1969.<\/p>\n

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10. Joker – Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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An anti-superhero movie that ties in nicely with the Batman origin story. It tracks the creation of a serial killer and makes it emotionally believable. But it\u2019s one scene after another establishing the character\u2019s weakness-need. I get it. The guy is screwed and screwed up. A bit more plot with the character work, please.<\/p>\n

11. Two Popes – Anthony McCarten (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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My Dinner with Andre<\/em> in the Vatican, but without the dinner and without the wit. It\u2019s a long but surprisingly engaging conversation between a conservative pope and the liberal cardinal who may replace him. Two Popes<\/em> is more watchable than you might think, partly because the conservative realizes the liberal is right. Yes, it\u2019s a fantasy film.<\/p>\n

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12. Booksmart \u2013 Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman \u2013 (original)<\/h3>\n

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Amusing, but not the treat it\u2019s supposed to be. The set up is absurd: after finding out their deadbeat friends have also gotten into Ivy League schools (apparently it\u2019s surprisingly easy), two nerdy girls decide to make up for their straight arrow existence in one night of fun. Yeah, that should do it. A string of hilarious hijinks ensues. Except that they aren\u2019t hilarious and they\u2019re all the same beat. This was pitched as a fresh take on the high school experience, but with so many elements from Romy and Michelle<\/em> and Fast Times<\/em>, I didn\u2019t see it. These girls are trying really hard to be quirky, but their buddy shtick goes on so long they just come across as annoying. It really lost me when the teacher joins the party.<\/p>\n

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13. Judy \u2013 Tom Edge and Peter Quilter (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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Judy Garland at the bottom of her life, taking her last shot. This film is deeply depressing as you watch one of the great talents of the 20th<\/sup> century fall from the accumulation of assaults she suffered since she was a child. Yes, she makes more than her share of mistakes. But she comes across as a hero fighting the unwinnable fight. Judy<\/em> is hard to get through, but if you hold on you will see the most powerful emotional scene of the year. If you don\u2019t cry in that scene, have them put you out of your misery. Because you\u2019re already dead. I don\u2019t see how anyone beats Ren\u00e9e Zellweger for Best Actress.<\/p>\n

14. 1917 – Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns (original)<\/h3>\n

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Spare me from cinematic experiments like this one where we walk though the trenches and across no man\u2019s land in real time in what appears to be a single take (it\u2019s not). There\u2019s a reason the cut is the key technique in film. It gets rid of the boring parts. This is Saving Private Ryan<\/em> goes to WW I (which was Seven Samurai<\/em> goes to WW II), but without the plot. Did anyone not know what was going to happen from the original setup? A life and death obstacle course\/video game with more than a few unbelievable moments. I know this is supposed to be an immersive experience. But beware of the fallacy of creating a boring experience to show the boredom and stupidity of war. This is the most overrated screenplay of the year.<\/p>\n

15. The Rise of Skywalker – J.J. Abrams & Chris Terrio, Derek Connolly & Colin Treverrow (completely unoriginal)<\/h3>\n

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The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> was never going to be an Oscar contender, but this bloated mess marks the sad end (we hope) of what was once a great series. It\u2019s not as bad as Rian Johnson\u2019s embarrassing The Last Jedi<\/em>. But that\u2019s only because J.J. Abrams et al. throw everything at you so fast you don\u2019t have time to realize how stupid it is. The worst part about the film isn\u2019t the massive plot holes or the repetition of the same beats we\u2019ve seen a thousand times before. It\u2019s that the character beats and the attempts at real emotion come across as totally phony and unbelievable. No, I take that back. The worst part is that there are more resurrections than a Holy Rollers convention and Luke looks like a bobblehead doll.<\/p>\n

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16. Marriage Story \u2013 Noah Bumbach (original)<\/h3>\n

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Cinema as dental drilling. This is lawyer story, not marriage story. She comes across as the heavy from the beginning when she decides to use a lawyer after they agreed not to. She also seems like a dummy for falling for the bullshit from her smarmy lawyer. A talking heads movie that hits the same beat forever and makes The Irishman<\/em> seem like a short film. It also leaves the false impression that women end up better off from divorce when the reality is they usually end up totally screwed.<\/p>\n

17. Hustlers \u2013 Lorene Scafaria, Jessica Pressler (adapted)<\/h3>\n

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A group of strippers drug Wall Street guys and steal their money. That describes the whole movie and the only plot beat in the movie. This film achieves the impossible of making you feel bad for Wall Street guys.<\/p>\n

18. Dolemite Is My Name \u2013 Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski (original)<\/h3>\n

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Until I saw Uncut Gems<\/em>, this was the worst movie I saw this year. There\u2019s no story. The hero faces zero obstacles in gaining success. It\u2019s not funny. Yet some reviewers say it\u2019s one of the best movies of the year. Incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

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19. Uncut Gems \u2013 Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (original)<\/h3>\n

A self-professed fuck-up makes a colossally stupid move to start the film and then somehow gets dumber. What a waste of two hours of my life.<\/p>\n

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John Truby is Hollywood\u2019s premier screenwriting instructor and story consultant.\u00a0<\/strong>
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Over the last 25 years, more than 50,000 people have attended his sold-out seminars around the world, with the American Film Institute declaring that his \u201ccourse allows a writer to succeed in the fiercely competitive climate of Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Called \u201cthe best script doctor in the movie industry,\u201d Truby serves as a story consultant for major studios and production companies worldwide, and has been a script doctor on more than 1,800 movies, sitcoms and television dramas for the likes of Disney, Universal, Sony Pictures, FOX, HBO, Alliance Atlantis, Paramount, BBC, MTV and more.<\/p>\n

In addition to his sold-out seminars, John Truby remains on the cutting- edge of technology having created and developed Truby Blockbuster \u2013 the bestselling software designed to intuitively help writers learn and understand the art of developing their story ideas into fully realized, professionally-structured scripts.<\/p>\n

Truby\u2019s principles and methods are the most modern, exciting approach to screenwriting and storytelling to be\u00a0\"Truby<\/a>
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