Aunque mucha gente cree que escribir un buen guión es una tarea muy sencilla, realmente es muy difícil. Muchas personas piensan que sentarse y escribir un buen guión es una cuestión de una pocas horas y muy fácil. Nada más lejos de la realidad, es un proceso complicado y arduo.
Podríamos discutir sin parar respecto a qué es un guión perfecto, o qué lo hace perfecto. Algunos aseguran incluso que no existe. Sin embargo hay un montón de guiones que se encuentran cerca de tal perfección, viniendo muy bien para el aprendizaje de todos aquellos que quieren ser guionistas y se encuentran en fase de aprendizaje.
Te presentamos aquí 10 de ellos gracias a la web whatculture, con el acceso directo al guión de forma que los puedas leer pero si tienes alguno que quieras recomendar estaremos encantados de que lo hagas en los comentarios de este post:
1. Chinatown (1974) – Robert Towne
2. Regreso al futuro (1985) – Robert Zemeckis/Bob Gale
3. Tiburón (1975) – Peter Benchley
4. Casablanca (1942) – Julius J. Epstein/Phillip G. Epstein/Howard Koch
5. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino/Roger Avary
6. Taxi Driver (1976) – Paul Schrader
7. El apartamento (1960) – Billy Wilder/I.A.L. Diamond
8. En busca del arca perdida (1982) – Lawrence Kasdan
9. Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen/Marshall Brickman
10. Atrapado en el tiempo (1993) – Danny Rubin/Harold Ramis
«If you asked 10 strangers working in the movie business what they believed to be the greatest screenplay ever written, chances are that most of them would say Chinatown. Why? Because, from a speculative point of view, it’s about as good as they come – a perfect template for “great writing” that isn’t boring or dull, is dense with rich characters, and is is wrapped up in a brilliantly sad and complex story that never feels overwrought or tired.
The structure itself is to be admired greatly, but the best thing about Chinatown is in the way Towne crafts his characters – all of them are shrouded in mystery from the script’s first page to its very last. There’s also the way in which Towne handles so many plot threads all at once – there are so many things going on inChinatown, but to study this screenplay is to learn just how little dialogue and exposition you really need to get an idea across.
J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholas in the movie) barely ever talks about Chinatown, save for one brief line, and yet Towne manages to infuse such potent meaning into the idea of what Chinatown is and what it means for the story. Better yet, Towne infuses a sense of great originality into the script from the get go – the masterful way in which he set-up a “cliché” narrative situation and turn it on its head in the first 20 pages is a stroke of genius. If anything, Chinatown teaches you not to settle for telling your story in the ways you’ve seen it before, but to be bold.
You can read Robert Towne’s screenplay for Chinatown here…»
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