M. Night Shyamalan - I love the thematic links between his screenplays. His concepts couldn't be further apart from one another but they all bare his signature. He hasn't compromised his style or storytelling methods despite recent critical backlash. He defiantly chooses to write his own screenplays, turning down offers to direct other people's material. His screenplays also don't conform to traditional structure. His first three acts are typically half an hour long each, with a ten minute fourth act at the end serving as a falling action. By doing this, Shyamalan seems to be part art house/indie auteur, and part mainstream filmmaker. I aspire to that.Agat
ha Christie - I love how she structures her mystery stories. Its very cinematic in how she withholds information, like Shyamalan, only to reveal it at the very end. It makes her novels really suspenseful, and satisfying reads.
Richard Matheson - First off, I love his Twilight Zone episodes and adaptations of his own short stories and novellas (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, The Shrinking Man, etc.). But I love him mostly for the BIG IDEAS presented in his stories. For example, I Am Legend is a reversal of Dracula. Instead of the world being populated by humans with one vampire among us, the world is now populated by vampires with one human among us. He's the Dracula of the human race.
Jack Finney - Author of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Time and Again, From Time to Time, and numerous short stories. For anyone who loves The Twilight Zone, this guy does Rod Serling one better. His shorts often set in San Francisco, deal with time travel and they tend to incorporate a twist.
Stephen King - I think with Stephen King's It, he managed to do what no filmmaker has done in making something so overwhelmingly visceral and frightening, and yet very warm and emotional. I loved the empowering of children in it. The juxtaposition of the monster with the 1950s Norman Rockwell setting makes the horror that much more horrifying. It's kind of how Pan's Labyrinth functions. Stephen King has other books that do this too-The Shining and Bag of Bones, in my opinion.
Brian K. Vaughn - I love him for his work on Lost, but even more so for his comic series Y: The Last Man, about an aspiring escape artist and his pet monkey as they survive through a plague that instantly wipes out every living creature with a Y chromosome. So women have inherited the Earth. It's both funny and surprisingly believable.
ha Christie - I love how she structures her mystery stories. Its very cinematic in how she withholds information, like Shyamalan, only to reveal it at the very end. It makes her novels really suspenseful, and satisfying reads.
Richard Matheson - First off, I love his Twilight Zone episodes and adaptations of his own short stories and novellas (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, The Shrinking Man, etc.). But I love him mostly for the BIG IDEAS presented in his stories. For example, I Am Legend is a reversal of Dracula. Instead of the world being populated by humans with one vampire among us, the world is now populated by vampires with one human among us. He's the Dracula of the human race.
Jack Finney - Author of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Time and Again, From Time to Time, and numerous short stories. For anyone who loves The Twilight Zone, this guy does Rod Serling one better. His shorts often set in San Francisco, deal with time travel and they tend to incorporate a twist.
Stephen King - I think with Stephen King's It, he managed to do what no filmmaker has done in making something so overwhelmingly visceral and frightening, and yet very warm and emotional. I loved the empowering of children in it. The juxtaposition of the monster with the 1950s Norman Rockwell setting makes the horror that much more horrifying. It's kind of how Pan's Labyrinth functions. Stephen King has other books that do this too-The Shining and Bag of Bones, in my opinion.
Brian K. Vaughn - I love him for his work on Lost, but even more so for his comic series Y: The Last Man, about an aspiring escape artist and his pet monkey as they survive through a plague that instantly wipes out every living creature with a Y chromosome. So women have inherited the Earth. It's both funny and surprisingly believable.
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