Fight Club
American Beauty
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho (hilarious edgy satire on 80s materialism, c.f. Fight Club!)
Sunset Blvd
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
(and a vast, long list that I could expand on at length but won’t here…)

Anyway, bravo, thanks for this post.

JT Velikovsky

Love also that you included `Fight Club’ as an example…

(it also happens to be: my favourite work of cinema, not that, it’s important)

I am shocked every time I read that script (FIGHT CLUB) – at just how great it is.

I know the book very well too – but, the film is actually BETTER than the book, IMHO.

(Which I find is rare… `Deliverance’ would be another example too…)

It’s actually a film with a very clear – and very radical – `philosophy’ underpinning it; precious few films do that.

But the story of `how it happened’ (made it to the screen) means, it all makes sense (and, the ironic fact that Fox tried to bury it – once they realized, `what it was’ – eg as somewhat shown, in the film `WHAT JUST HAPPENED?’)

Anyway – great post, very inspiring

JT Velikovsky
High ROI Film/Story/Screenplay Consultant
https://storyality.wordpress.com/