’70s Movies You Should Watch

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
1 min readOct 20, 2017

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Alien, Carrie, Jaws, Network, Rocky, and more.

I asked Go Into The Story readers to post reflections about a favorite movie from the 1970s with two goals:

  • To provide background and analysis on movies from this decade
  • To inspire people to watch movies which is critical for learning the craft of screenwriting
‘The Godfather’ (1972)

A Woman Under the Influence

Alien

All the President’s Men

Apocalypse Now

Carrie

Chinatown

Colussus: The Forbin Project

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Dog Day Afternoon

Harold and Maude

Jaws

Logan’s Run

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Midnight Express

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Murder By Death

Network

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Rocky

Shampoo

Smokey and the Bandit

Star Wars

Taxi Driver

The Conversation

The Getaway

The Godfather

The Godfather: Part II

The Last Detail

The Parallax View

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Sting

What’s Up, Doc?

Young Frankenstein

My advice: Use the analysis and background provided above, then pick 10 of these movies and watch them.

This is one key to immersing yourself in the world of cinema which you MUST do in order to become a better screenwriter.

Tomorrow: ’80s Movies.

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