Dark Whimsy Favorites: The Writers
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days, Ranking the Writers.
We’ve added in to our list of Dark Whimsy Favorites the seven A+ Dark Whimsy Christmas favorites that we’ve already reviewed (###). Now we’re looking at the list to see what the 58 films have in common.
We’ve looked at the decades they were released in, the nationalities of origin and the production studios.
What about the people involved? Who are our Dark Whimsy creators and stars?
We looked at the producers. Let’s look at the writers:
Writers
1 Ethan Coen 3 (EC)
-- Joel Coen 3 (JC)
3 Tim Burton 2 (TB)
-- Pete Docter 2 (PD)
-- Blake Edwards 2 (BE)
-- Stuart Gordon 2 (SG)
-- Jim Henson 2 (JHen)
-- John Hughes 2 (JHug)
-- Jerry Juhl 2 (JJ)
-- Steve Martin 2 (SM)
-- Jean Shepherd 2 (JS)
-- Andrew Stanton 2 (AS)
-- Caroline Thompson 2 (CT)
#3 (1963) The Pink Panther /BE
#5 (1965) The Great Race /BE
#9 (1979) The Muppet Movie /JHen JJ
#17 (1983) The Man With Two Brains /SM
### (1983) A Christmas Story /JS
#21 (1985) Re-Animator /SG
#24 (1987) Raising Arizona /EC JC
#25 (1987) Roxanne /SM
#27 (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles /JHug
#32 (1989) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids /SG
### (1989) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation /JHug
### (1990) Edward Scissorhands /TB CT
### (1992) The Muppet Christmas Carol /JHen JJ
### (1993) The Nightmare Before Christmas /TB CT
#35 (1995) Toy Story /PD AS
#36 (1996) Fargo /EC JC
#39 (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? /EC JC
#41 (2001) Monsters, Inc. /PD AS
#50 (2022) A Christmas Story Christmas /JS
Next up... the directors...
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-22
Last updated 2025-02-06