https://dan-bronson.com/archives/2024/Recent content in 2024 on Dan Bronson — Author, ScreenwriterHugoen-usSat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-invisible-man/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-invisible-man/<p>Last month I had the honor of opening the NoirCon convention of dark mystery writers and fans by introducing and commenting on a screening of <em>Chinatown</em>.</p> <p>One of the questions I dealt with was the authorship of this, the greatest of all film noirs. The long-acknowledged writer of the screenplay is, of course, the celebrated Robert Towne. Legendary for his uncredited efforts on <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em> and <em>The Godfather</em> and for his authorship of other masterworks like <em>The Last Detail</em> and <em>Shampoo</em>, Towne won the Academy Award for Best Writing for his work on <em>Chinatown</em>, but the story turns out to have been much more complicated than that.</p>