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Their Finest
2017 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Lone Scherfig
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
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Hollywood writers are glamorous? Hilarious. I've lived most of my life in SoCal and that's not really the general perception. Even movies about writers like Saving Mr. Banks don't depict it as a glamorous life, though Their Finest does a little bit.
Ultimately what drives screenwriters is their need to create. For those of us who do creative writing, be it for screen, dead tree, or compiler, there's this internal need for the work to make itself manifest. We're just the conduit for the story. That's why people put up with the conditions in the writers room, it's all for the story.