The biggest reason Living is a good movie (besides Bill Nighy’s wonderful lead performance) is that Ikiru remains one of the greatest films ever made, and the original story is still deeply resonant.Īll Quiet on the Western Front faces similar hurdles. As beautiful as Ishiguro’s dialogue is, the heavy lifting on this script was already done by Kurosawa and his cowriters in the 1950s. That makes the screenplay tough to argue for here. Famed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro crafted an incredibly faithful adaptation of the original Kurosawa film: so faithful, in fact, that Living is almost a perfect scene-for-scene remake. Living is probably the easiest nominee to eliminate from contention. But let’s reverse engineer that choice by picking the nittiest of nits with the four other very good screenplays. While the opinions of Oscar voters may vary, the movie that best answers these four questions is Glass Onion.
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