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n. - A writer of screenplays.

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  • By virtue of simply directing his own writing, let alone doing so with style and purpose, Welles is hardly a "scenarist" in relation to
  • Truffaut used the word "scenarist" to refer to individuals commissioned to write for the French cinema, often adaptations of literary works, but who left it to others to...
  • Douwe Dabbert is a comic figure conceived by artist Piet Wijn and scenarist Thom Roep.
  • And anyway, the good things – CGI, direction, scenarist and lighting etc – dont really balance out such fundamental flaws as a bad script.
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