You didn't tell me why. You told me why Brackett got credit. There is no reason for george to not get credit as well.
Yeah I did. If he wanted credit, he would have taken it. Instead, he gave that half to Brackett's estate.
As it was, he was already putting all his own money up to get the thing made. He didn't get paid until after the movie came out.
Essentially, he didn't need the writer's credit, and he didn't need the money that would have come from taking that credit. But the Brackett family could have used that money, so he killed his own credit and gave it to Brackett so they could get residuals. So yeah, I told you why. There was absolutely a reason why he wouldn't take credit, and that reason was so that Leigh Brackett's estate would get the money. That's it.
It's not like there was a worry that if he didn't take the writer's credit, people wouldn't know he did anything on the movie, yunno?
Check out J.W. Rinzler's "Making of" books that came out. They're really fun reads. Not slow-going at all, full of a LOT of behind-the-scenes images people didn't see until they got published.
Shawshank topped a channel4 poling for greatest movies of all time way back in the late 90's/earlier 2000's. This is not a new phenoma, people just like the movie.
True indeed, but I also think there's this sort of self-perpetuating thing with it at this point.
I wouldn't be surprised if in another 10-20 years, the way people like to throw out "Citizen Kane" as shorthand for "great movie I haven't actually watched but I know fucking snobs I don't like have seen it," might be replaced by "Shawshank," honestly. Like, say "I don't know what you're talking about, Transformers 13 was fucking awesome. I mean, what were you expecting, fucking Shawshank Redemption? Just turn your brain off, dummy."
