WGA's 101 Greatest Screenplays

The problem with this list is that it seems to be based entirely on which movies have the most memorable quotes. There’s a lot more to a screenplay than a few memorable pieces of dialogue. That’s why Casablanca is #1, it’s not the best screenplay ever written (though I do think it’s a great script), but it’s filled with quotable dialogue. Also, look at some of the other stuff here; When Harry met Sally, Jerry Maguire, Forrest Gump, none of which are really great screenplays. They just have a few famous individual lines. As far as I’m concerned ‘adaptation.’ ought to be #1, that’s a script that genuinely offers a lot more then a few funny quips.